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dbboy Wrote:

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> It would be wonderfull to see the Crystal Palace

> resurrected to its former glory, and so provide a

> focal point for south east London and attract

> visitors from all over the world. THe structure

> once complete could be used for all manner of uses

> from exhibitions. concerts, weddings etc.


It might be wonderful as an occasional visitor but many CP locals are against a huge retail space (for that is what it will largely be) being built smack on the top of parkland. The transport infrastructure struggles to cope with CP as it is today, let alone with a whacking great retail/exhibition centre stuck in the middle of it - plus the local, independent businesses in the CP triangle would almost certainly suffer as rents went sky high.

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dbboy Wrote:

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> I am not talking about a large retail unit and

> would not agree with it being used for

> that.Bromley and Croydon already exist to provide

> such retail experiences.


Fair dues, but that is what is currently being proposed.

computedshorty

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This was the railway within the grounds of Crystal palace.

Various systems were built to either push or pull a carriage through a tunnel using a differential in air pressure. Such a set-up carried mail beneath London in the second half of the 19th Century, and a short-lived passenger line operated alongside Crystal Palace Park (pictured above). Most ambitiously of all, a line beneath the Thames between Whitehall and Waterloo was partly constructed in the 1860s, but abandoned for financial reasons.

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Gardeners world

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As a then local who spent 3 years with interested parties discussing the prospect of the park being renovated & the sports facilities being upgraded with Ken Livingstones LDA, I'm delighted to hear this news. Boris wasted all these costly, lengthy negotiations & knocked the plan on the head. But he's obviously found a rich pal to revive the the plan. He'll need to get past some strong local opposition, as Bromley council tried to get a cinema complex & car park built there with funding & alleged backhanders from Kuwait without reffering to locals. Very proud to say my 87 year old Uncle was arrested for protesting!

It was always said, that if anything was to be built there, it was to be rebuilt in the spirit of the old Crystal Palace which promoted the products, skills & wonders of the Empire, for the education & entertainment of the people. Personally, I would love to see it as a new design,promoting the best of British design,art, engineering & manufacturing, at which we have excelled for many many years. Why else would foreign companies buy up all our top branded manufacturing companies? They appear to have been replaced by the financial industry as our number one earner.

It has more recently been thought the fire was started by the underfloor heating breaking through the wooden floorboards.

Further, as a biased gardener, I would love to see wonderful gardens incorporated in the park renovations, as it is this countries favourite pastime.

woodrot

woodrot

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trophy project- but what really is the point ? after the exhibition, the original Xtal Place was a bit of a nothing building. sorta like the Dome, but without ?50 man paying ?100 to see Eric Clapton churn out his awful MOR mulch for a couple of hours.


* holds lighter in air*

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