Built in the mid-19th century, almost entirely of glass and iron, the grand Crystal Palace was a symbol of British pride. But it would suffer a fiery fate.

Long before that fateful November day, the television landscape was crowded with inventors competing for the title to the as-yet unproven but promising medium. Despite his eventual defeat, Baird ...

The destruction of the Crystal Palace on 30 November 1936 was the Great Fire of south London — a vast conflagration which could be seen from the city centre, and drew 100,000 horrified ...

THE destruction by fire of the greater part of the Crystal Palace on the night of November 30-December 1 will be widely regretted, for, although its general form and architecture have often made ...

A marvel of the Victorian era, the Crystal Palace was destroyed in a fire on Nov. 30, 1936. Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV. ... dismantled and moved to Sydenham, south-east London, ...

To answer the question of what the Crystal Palace is, we actually have to go way back and answer the question of what the Crystal Palace was.Back in 1851, London hosted the Great Exhibition, also ...