Montage only partly based on actual events It was the greatest cultural event that London has ever staged. Millions flocked to the 1851 Great ... And the sparkling Crystal Palace, which had ...
When the Crystal Palace and Park opened in south London in 1854 ... after the Great Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park. Wide-eyed spectators wandered freely through Egyptian and Medieval Courts ...
"The strangers [coming from abroad], they give out," Albert wrote, "England having ... the crowds swelling London, nor any in the Crystal Palace, even when, on October 7, 1851, 109,000 people ...