By Allan Cornford
Copyright © 2022 Allan Cornford. (Standard Copyright License.) All rights reserved. Independently Published through KDP. The images which are included for informative purposes only, are Screenshots, courtesy of Ewaranon’s YouTube documentary; ‘The Lost History of the Flat Earth’. All external links to images in the public domain, are courtesy from Wikimedia Commons and where possible, credits are given to each source. This I believe, comes under the term of Fair Use.
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Franz August Karl Albert Emanuel; 26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the husband of Queen Victoria. As such, he was consort of the British monarch from their marriage on 10 February 1840 until his death in 1861. Victoria granted him the title Prince Consort in 1857.
Conceived in 1849 by Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, and designed by gardener, Sir Joseph Paxton, as a venue for the 1851 London Great Exhibition of all Nations, the Crystal Palace was constructed on an 18-acre site in Hyde Park, London.
The Crystal Palace was a cast iron and plate glass structure, originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. The exhibition took place from 1 May to 15 October 1851, and more than 14,000 exhibitors from around the world gathered in its 990,000-square-foot (92,000 m2) exhibition space to display examples of technology developed in the Industrial Revolution. Designed by Joseph Paxton, the Great Exhibition building was 1,851 feet (564 m) long, with an interior height of 128 feet (39 m) and was three times the size of St Paul’s Cathedral.
The 3-floor structure consisted of an intricate network of cast iron girders, sustaining its walls and a roof of clear glass.
Beside the glass, the Palace was supported by 3,300 cast-iron columns and 2,224 principal girders (weighing 9,642 tons) and 24 miles of main gutter; 205 miles of wood sash bar held the glass roof panels in place.
(Folke T. Kihlstedt, Scientific American1984)
At three times the size of St. Paul’s Cathedral, the final dimensions of the Crystal Palace were 1,848 feet (563 m) long by 456 feet (139 m) wide, and the height of the central transept was 108 feet (33 meters).
St Paul’s Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Paul the Apostle, is an Anglican cathedral in London, England, the seat of the Bishop of London. The cathedral serves as the mother church of the Diocese of London in the Church of England. It is on Ludgate Hill at the highest point of the City of London. Its dedication in honour of Paul the Apostle dates back to the original church on this site, founded in AD 604
The commission in charge of mounting the Great Exhibition was established in January 1850, and it was decided at the outset that the entire project would be funded by public subscription.
By 15 March 1850 they were ready to invite submissions, which had to conform to several key specifications:
the building had to be temporary, simple, as cheap as possible, and economical to build.
On June 11, 1850, Paxton made his original concept drawing, which he doodled with pen and ink onto a sheet of pink blotting paper.
This rough sketch (now in the Victoria and Albert Museum) incorporated all the basic features of the finished building.
The Commission finally gave its public endorsement to Paxton’s design in July 1850.
He now had less than 40 weeks to finalize his plans, manufacture the parts, get them delivered and erect the building in time for the Exhibition’s opening, which was scheduled for 1 May 1851.
Paxton was able to design and build the largest glass structure yet created, from scratch, within ten months, and complete it bang on schedule.
(Some sources say nine months, others say eight.)
Complete with an array of interior water features, giant lily pads, trees and a botanical garden, Paxton had created a structure with the greatest area of glass ever seen in a building.
Sir Joseph Paxton (3 August 1803 – 8 June 1865) was an English gardener, architect, engineer and Liberal Member of Parliament. He is best known for designing the Crystal Palace, which was built in Hyde Park, London to house the Great Exhibition of 1851, the first world’s fair, and for cultivating the Cavendish banana, the most consumed banana in the Western world.
It astonished visitors with its clear walls and ceilings that did not require interior lights.
There were over 100,000 exhibits on show, from over 15,000 contributors, stretching for more than ten miles of frontage.
Abraham Follett Osler (22 March 1808 – 26 April 1903), known as A. Follett Osler, was a pioneer in the measurement of meteorological and chronological data in Birmingham, England.
Designed we’re told, by glass merchant, A. Follett Osler, the 27 feet high Crystal Fountain was the world’s first glass fountain, made of four tons of pure crystal glass.
Programmed to perform with the rich sound of a majestic 4,700-pipe organ, the fountain was displayed in the central court and was illuminated by electric lights shining up though the columns of water.
‘The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition, London, 1851’ (volume 1, p. 235) recorded that; the fountain was perhaps the most striking object in the exhibition; the lightness and beauty, as well as the perfect novelty of the design, have rendered it the theme of admiration with all visitors.
The ingenuity with which this has been affected is very perfect; it is supported by bars of iron, which are so completely embedded in the glass shafts, as to be invisible, and in no degree interfering with the purity and crystalline effect of the whole object.
An incredible achievement for a lowly gardener, wouldn’t you say?
We do have a rough sketch doodled on a piece of pink blotting paper mind, tucked away in a museum.
Forgive my sarcasm, but there are so many enigmas and unanswered questions in the official narrative of this temporary construction, that just doesn’t add up.
How long did it take to level the 800,000 square feet of land the structure was built on?
How long did it take to lay all the underground pipework, to construct the water garden and install the plumbing for the 174 submerged fountains?
All we are told is the fantastic story, that the entire building and its water features, was erected in less than 10 months.
Even if the Crystal Palace was only a temporary construction, as the official narrative maintains, think how solid the footings would need to be to support an overall weight well in excess of 10 thousand tons.
So why does the narrative claim that no heavy masonry was required for foundations, because the building stood on relatively light concrete footings, which could be left in the ground?
The geometry of the Crystal Palace we’re told, was a classic example of the concept of form following manufacturer’s limitations:
the shape and size of the whole building was directly based around the size of the panes of glass made by the supplier.
These were the largest available at the time, measuring 10 inches (25 cm) wide by 49 inches (120cm) long.
Because the entire building was effectively scaled around those dimensions, it meant that nearly the whole outer surface could be glazed using in excess of a million identical panes, thereby drastically reducing both their production cost and the time needed to install them.
[Credit: Wikipedia]
The 900,000 square feet (84,000 m2) of glass weighing around 400 tons was provided by the Chance Brothers glassworks in Smethwick near Birmingham.
At the height of production in January 1851, some 60,000 panes of glass were produced in a fortnight.
[Ref. Hollister P. (1974)
The Glazing of the Crystal Palace.]
And this before the age of automated mass production?
In response to one of Jon Levi’s mind-blowing and highly informative YouTube documentaries on the Crystal Palace, one viewer commented:
Hey there, I’m a commercial Glazier.
And the part where you’re talking about the amount of glass that was installed by the number of people in the given time frame is physically impossible for a multitude of reasons.
Basically, each individual Glazier would have to perfectly set and seal 2.678 pieces of glass by themselves every hour for 12 hours a day for 7 days straight with no breaks.
This is assuming all 295,000 panes of glass were perfect and fit correctly, none were broken or damaged in transport, and installed without damage correctly on the first attempt.
This isn’t even possible in the industry today.
The distance from the Smethwick Glassworks to Hyde Park is 134 miles, which even by today’s standards is a 2 hour 30-minute journey by road.
The only transportation by road in 1851, was the lowly horse and cart or the early steam-driven traction engine, with only steam-powered rail freight or the existing canal system as an alternative option.
Neither Wikipedia nor Encyclopedia Britannica, nor any other source as far as I’m aware, provide any information on exactly how 400 tons of glass and 9,642 tons of cast iron girders were transported all the way to the construction site.
A somewhat puzzling matter, wouldn’t you say?
Old black and white photographs of the original building in Hyde Park are extremely rare, and virtually impossible to find.
This in itself should be enough to challenge the historical record.
The 1851 World Fair in London was the first of its kind, attracting millions of visitors, including royalty, from right across the world.
Don’t you think both the national and international Press would have been all over it?
The following year, 1852, the Crystal Palace was completely dismantled and relocated to Sydenham Hill (a distance of about 20 miles by road) where it was modified and enlarged.
Once again, I’ve not been able to source any information as to how such vast amounts of materials were dismantled and once again slowly transported by horse and cart, to the new construction site.
The new Palace had five rather than three stories, making it half as large again as the original, and nearly twice the height.
The area of glass required was now 1,650,000 square feet, such that the glass from the original palace filled less than two-thirds of the need.
Two massive water storage towers were built in the extensive, landscaped grounds, to feed an elaborate system of waterworks, including 1,200 fountains, two of which shot water 200 feet into the air.
This included the 4-ton Crystal Fountain, plus a more superior pipe-organ, producing an even richer sound for the water to dance to.
The total height of each tower, from the first floor or tier to the top of the chimney cap, was 279 feet, each being 107 feet higher than the Nelson Column in Trafalgar-square.
Each tank, when full of water, contained 448,000 imperial gallons, or about 2,000 tons.
Construction we’re told, began in 1853 and was completed in 1854.
Yet another truly remarkable (or should I say truly impossible) achievement.
Like its predecessor, there are no photographs of the construction process.
Do you think it possible the entire story has been fabricated?
An old photograph taken in the 1920s from the top of Sydenham Hill, shows the enormity of the glass structure, and how completely out of character it was, towering high above the rooftops of the brick-built residential buildings around it.
For a number of years, the relocated Crystal Palace was the site of:
- shows
- exhibitions
- concerts
- football (soccer) matches
and other entertainments.
By the 1890’s, the Palace’s popularity and state of repair had deteriorated; the appearance of stalls and booths had made it a much more down-market attraction.
Over the next few years, the building fell into disrepair, as the huge debt and maintenance costs became unsustainable, and in 1911, bankruptcy was declared.
[Credit: Wikipedia]
On the evening of 30 November 1936, and which still remains an unsolved mystery to this day, an unexplained explosion in a women’s washroom caused an office fire which began to spread quickly and was soon out of control.
Although 89 fire engines and over 400 firemen arrived, they were unable to extinguish it.
Within hours, the Palace was destroyed, and the glow was visible across eight counties.
Witnesses described
”so much molten glass that it looked like a waterfall”
even
”like a Niagara Falls of molten glass.”
According to one eyewitness
”the glass actually caught fire and when it was really hot there was a sodium flame, and the liquid glass was just pouring down.”
(Ref: Edwards. E. Wincoll, K. (1992)
”The Crystal Palace is on Fire”
Memories of the 30th November, 1936.
The fire burned most of the night, melting the glass panels and softening the steel superstructure, until one by one, the great supporting arches twisted and fell.
By morning, nothing was left but a tangled ruin.
In the wake of the fire, most of the remaining metalwork was removed and sold for scrap, and what could not be salvaged was ploughed under, filling in what had been the basement level of the palace.
One-hundred thousand people came to Sydenham Hill to watch the blaze, among them Winston Churchill, who said:
“This is the end of an age.”
Maybe truer words were never spoken.
An:
- inherited
- renovated
- repurposed
old world structure, on display to the public for one last time before going out in a blaze of glory?
For my guess is, there were actually two of these magnificent glass structures, one located at Hyde Park, the other at Sydenham Hill.
Each of these two old world structures, were displayed to the public one last time, before being wantonly destroyed, under the guise of one fabricated narrative.
Yes, I know it sounds crazy.
But is the concept any less crazy than the official historical record?
For if the official narrative were to be believed, and cost was not an issue, could an exact copy of this magnificent temporary glass structure be built today?
In eight to ten months and by using the same materials?
By comparison, roughly the length of time it now takes to build a 4-bedroomed house.
Of course not!
Has society forgotten or lost the ability to achieve such a remarkable feat of engineering?
Or is it more likely the official narrative is false?
1851 was also the year when the Prime Meridian was re-located to the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, in south-east London.
We are spun the fabricated yarn in the mainstream narrative, that the foundation stone was laid on August 10, 1675, and the building was completed in the summer of 1676.
The massive old world building, with a tower placed at each of its 4 corners and a central dome, as depicted on a postcard (c. 1902) tells a completely different story.
It would be impossible to construct such a superb building within a single year today, let alone back in the seventeenth century.
It’s very likely that the 1851 Great Exhibition of all Nations, held at the Crystal Palace, marked the beginning of the elite’s ongoing venture towards the implementation of their New World Order.
The World Fairs that followed were used as a means to showcase the latest inventions in automation, and new forms of technology.
And charge a fee for the fossil fuel power source obviously.
The Crystal Palace established an architectural standard for later international fairs and exhibitions that likewise were housed in glass conservatories.
The immediate successors being the Cork Exhibition of 1852, the Dublin and New York City expositions of 1853, the Munich Exhibition of 1854, and the Paris Exposition of 1855.
When you look into the history of each of these exhibitions, a similar pattern emerges.
Each was held in magnificent old world style buildings which were constructed in record time, and in most cases, were demolished shortly thereafter.
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