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Crystal Palace![]() Dickinson's picture of the ‘India’ section at the Great Exhibition, in London, England, in 1851. The building in which it was staged, the Crystal Palace, was 564 m/1,851 ft long (deliberately, to mark the year), 139 m/456 ft wide, 20 m/66 ft high, and enclosed a floor space of 74,320 sq m/800,000 sq ft. There were more than 13,000 exhibitors.
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| The Crystal Palace was six miles away from Bun Hill, a great facade that glittered in the morning, and was a clear blue outline against the sky in the afternoon, and of a night, a source of gratuitous fireworks for all the population of Bun Hill. And now the day of the Final at the Crystal Palace approached, and all England was alert, confident of a record-breaking contest. Far away and blue were the Surrey hills, and the towers of the Crystal Palace glittered like two silver rods. |
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