Crystal Palace Park
On Sunday, I did a walking tour of Crystal Palace Park which is in Southeast London, not far from Greenwich. It gets its name from the Crystal Palace from the Great Exhibition which was moved here in 1854. It was considered to be the world's first "theme park." The palace burnt down in 1937. I had heard a lot about the park, mainly because of the dinosaur models. Hugely popular with kids.
A tunnel of trees
All that's left of the Crystal Palace-this was the entrance wall
Big headed statue of Joseph Paxton-the architect of the Crystal Palace, also a famous landscape gardener
"The Land that Time Forgot"-the models were made in 1854, they've also brought in non native trees to make it look like you really are in a different world
Lots of the models are now known to be slightly inaccurate-they didn't have as many fossils in 1854 as they do now!!
It was a nice day and the area was packe with kids. They all love the dinosaurs!
Model of an Iguanodon-one that they now know is slightly off
Huge model of an ice age giant sloth-they also have a trail of other ice age animals along with the dinosaurs
Mural done by some local schoolchildren
The park is dinosaur crazy-even the play area!
An ornamental lake
A small bird sanctuary
A (real) crane
Not from the Park-at the moment there are hundreds of elephant statues in London, they are going to be auctioned off to raise money for Asian Elephant conservation
An elephant by Cleopatra's needle
The "Elephant Parade" was organized by Camilla's brother-he has a large conservation charity
A tunnel of trees
All that's left of the Crystal Palace-this was the entrance wall
Big headed statue of Joseph Paxton-the architect of the Crystal Palace, also a famous landscape gardener
"The Land that Time Forgot"-the models were made in 1854, they've also brought in non native trees to make it look like you really are in a different world
Lots of the models are now known to be slightly inaccurate-they didn't have as many fossils in 1854 as they do now!!
It was a nice day and the area was packe with kids. They all love the dinosaurs!
Model of an Iguanodon-one that they now know is slightly off
Huge model of an ice age giant sloth-they also have a trail of other ice age animals along with the dinosaurs
Mural done by some local schoolchildren
The park is dinosaur crazy-even the play area!
An ornamental lake
A small bird sanctuary
A (real) crane
Not from the Park-at the moment there are hundreds of elephant statues in London, they are going to be auctioned off to raise money for Asian Elephant conservation
An elephant by Cleopatra's needle
The "Elephant Parade" was organized by Camilla's brother-he has a large conservation charity
posted by Bethany at 12:15 PM
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