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Nice photo of people watching as a single car traverses wooden roller-coaster...note women in car still wearing hats!
On negative ‘Canadian Topsy Turvy Railway’ and ‘J. Russell & Sons’
'Published by J. RUSSELL & SONS – Crystal Palace'
Postmark on back ‘NORWOOD JY 1- 07’. Text on back, sent to Paris France.
Corner creases, small bit missing paper LL corner.
The Crystal Palace was a cast-iron and plate-glass structure originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was three times larger than the size of St Paul's Cathedral.The introduction of the sheet glass method into Britain by Chance Brothers in 1832 made possible the production of large sheets of cheap but strong glass, and its use in the Crystal Palace created a structure with the greatest area of glass ever seen in a building and astonished visitors with its clear walls and ceilings that did not require interior lights.
After the exhibition, it was decided to relocate the Palace to an area of South London known as Penge Common. It was rebuilt at the top of Penge Peak next to Sydenham Hill, an affluent suburb of large villas. It stood there from 1854 until its destruction by fire in 1936
