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The cashiers' office, after the fire of 1936, showing the safes containing books and trophies |
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The cashiers' office after the fire of 1936 -- the Fire team found evidence from this photograph that the fire spread under
the floor |
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The core sample from near the environmental protestors' camp |
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Molten glass from the 1936 fire, found in the environmental protesters'
camp |
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Dr Carl Chinn and the Dome team weren't able to investigate the
Oxford LMS station because the eviction of eco-warriors was in
progress |
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The Oxford LMS station opened on 1 May 1851 and the first excursion
was a trip to the Crystal Palace -- the similarity in design and
construction was deliberate |
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The Oxford LMS station, designed by Joseph Paxton and built by Fox and Henderson, used similar iron and glass prefabricated
components to those used in the Crystal Palace |
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The only iron column remaining from the 1851 building, resurrected
as a memorial outside the Crystal Palace Museum, on the site of
one of the water towers |
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This subway, built in 1865, is all that remains of the original
Crystal Palace complex |
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Inside the subway -- gas lamps once hung from the roof |
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The grave of ten navvies who died in a fall from the roof of the
Crystal Palace, August 1853. Ken Kiss is holding a transcription
of the lettering on the gravestone |