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The current Crystal Palace club is a separate club to that of the team of the same name formed in 1861. This was an amateur team (comprised initially of The Great Exhibition groundkeepers, though famous amateurs like Cuthbert Ottaway played for them too). They played in the early FA Cups (reaching the first ever semi-finals) and were one of the 11 founding fathers of the Football Association. Four players from the club appeared for England including the famous goalkeeper, Alexander Morten.
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The Crystal Palace was a glass and iron structure built to house the Great Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in Hyde Park, London, in 1851. After the Exhibition, it was moved and expanded and rebuilt on Sydenham Hill overlooking London, where it enjoyed a second life from 1854 until a horrific fire destroyed it in 1936.
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These Crystal Palace natural Japanese Bamboo 9" or 12" straight needles have a cult following. Discover why for yourself! Choose 9" for small projects like scarves and baby clothes and 12" for larger items like children and adult clothing.
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In their first season as a League Club, Crystal Palace lost their opening game at Merthyr Town 1-2 with A.G. Milligan scoring Palace's first ever league goal. Milligan's Palace career was short-lived ... and he made just one more appearance for the club. Palace's first ever home league match was a disappointing 0-0 draw against Plymouth Argyle but Palace then went on a run of six consecutive wins. Goalkeeper Jack Alderson, who had been signed in 1919, kept a clean sheet in six consecutive games. Palace lost just six more games all season, were unbeaten in the final sixteen games of the season (including an eight game winning streak)and went on to win the championship by five points from Southampton and earning promotion to the Second Division.
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A block north of the Crystal Palace stood a 350-foot-high, wood and iron companion structure called the Latting Observatory, where Elisha Otis demonstrated his steam-powered elevator and elevator brake. Otis, who had once been a mechanic for a bed frame company, had been the first to develop a reliable elevator brake. It was equipped with teeth that swung out from the edges of the cab to prevent it from falling. In a dramatic demonstration in the Latting Observatory in 1854, Otis ascended in an elevator and had the hoisting cable cut with an ax; the platform held fast.
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Unhappily the Crystal Palace was destroyed on the night of 1 December 1936 in the most spectacular fire seen in Britain for many years. (See image below) This started about eight o'clock in the evening near the Egyptian Room and spread with such amazing rapidity that within half an hour the great building was ablaze from end to end. Only the two towers escaped destruction. Ninety engines and five hundred firemen were engaged in flighting the flames, which rose to a height of three hundred feet. The cause of the fire was never discovered. Only the two towers escaped destruction but these were taken down in 1941 because they afforded a conspicuous landmark to enemy planes.
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