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Rebuild Crystal Palace

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agnurse Sat 23-May-26 03:35:32

I am Canadian and live in Canada, but Crystal Palace is also special to me. This is because I attended Girl Guides when I was young. Girl Guides was started because Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of Boy Scouts, held a rally for Scouts at the Crystal Palace - and a small group of girls showed up. They also wanted to join Scouting. Lord Baden-Powell called these girls "Guides" and turned them over to his sister, who helped to found the Girl Guides.

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nanna8 Sat 23-May-26 02:05:37

My Dad, a Londoner, watched as it burned in 1936 and never forgot the Crystal Palace. He spoke of how wonderful it used to be. Could they rebuild it and use it as a place for exhibitions and trade fairs again ? Have the builders these days the capability of building something like that ? I think it would be fabulous if they did. Preferably not with government money,either. I was looking at The Times today and admiring the pictures of it. The Victorians left a lot of wonderful buildings, didn’t they ?

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