i used to live in farguhar road as a child & a teenager & i remember 'puffer' trains waking me up early in the morning as the front engines were reversed onto a turntable in a siding which ran parallel to the road; i could see the trains from my house; the bridge was further up the road to my right where there was a bend in the road, which joined up with crystal palace parade, where many buses terminated; i used to play in crystal palace park & the woods which were on the other side of the station wall.
@@Dan23_7 cheers! i lived in farquhar road from when i was born on november 7th 1945, until may 1977, when i was 31! crystal palace was my favourite park because it had so much to see, including in the mid 60's, an athletic track, swimming pool , a motor racing track + several soccer pitches! one of my neighbours was british athlete, alan pascoe, while my dad knew dual world motor car rider & motor cyclist, john surtees!
As a historian, I cannot begin to express how amazed I am at the level of work you put in your videos/research! Thank you so much for providing this level of dedication, effort, and quality work to this American who does not have the ability to visit London at the moment!!!
Thank you very much for a great series. I was lucky enough to live close to Penge Gate for over 20 years and spent many happy times in Crystal Palace Park. I would highly recommend a visit to Crystal Palace (Low Level) Station even if you are not intending to travel by train to see how a beautiful station can be restored and bought into the 21st century. Also if you ever get the chance to follow the disused railway from the High Level Station it is a great walk with loads to see. There are 2 tunnels (Paxton and Crescent Woods) which are not open but you can visit their portals. Upper Sydenham Station still exists as a private residence and in Sydenham Hill Woods as well as one of the portals to Crescent Wood tunnel there is a footbridge called Cox's Walk which used to cross the railway. In addition the old trackbed at Lordship Lane Station within the grounds of Horniman Museum has been turned into a nature reserve. Thanks once again for bringing back happy memories.
Even that I have never seen any of the locations you are visiting, it's very exiting to see. So much history. I love the fadings from past to present, thinking it must take a lot of effort making them.
It always amazes me when you do the fade in pictures, how much places have changed but more so how it hasn't. hard to believe that some places remain exactly the same after so much time passing. great vid as always! :)
A brilliantly fascinating series about Crystal Palace. When Will was at senior school in the early 80’s he had a teacher telling his class that he was a historian and he and a group of fellow historians were looking for the lost train carriage which they believed to be underground in Crystal Palace Park but as far as he is aware, they never found it and he’d heard no reference to it until your video which brought back some amazing memories of things he’d long since forgotten 😀👍🏼
An absolutely amazing trio of documentaries. There is a tunnel entrance I remember (1960's) that you have not shown that was near the bus terminal and public toilets that went underground. These 3 videos are msm broadcast quality.
Darren, I have to say that I’m most impressed with your 3 part series on the magnificent Crystal Palace exhibition formerly at Upper Sydenham/ Penge Wood, I grew up on Gipsy Hill back in the 60’s and have many vivid memories of exploring the different parts of what remains of the old exhibition building, the grounds and old high level railway, the railway tunnels (Paxton and Crescent Wood just below Upper Sydenham station), also the old track bed leading to Lordship Lane station (now a housing estate) and still in place is the footbridge over the line at Cox’s Walk. However, I did spot a slight error in your video where you said that the bridge where the high level station entrance was is the original bridge, unfortunately that is a modern replacement, I seem to remember them replacing it back in the 1980’s as the original was deemed unsafe, but everything else you have shown I believe is correct, I also remember that there was a coal merchants office that was on the corner next to the main entrance to the station which survived until about 1970. Anyway, I would like to congratulate you on a truly professional quality video series, it’s always a pleasure to hear about the old Crystal Palace exhibition and the incredible park as it was in its heyday, thank you for rekindling such wonderful memories growing up so close in such an historic area of London.
Brilliant Series... Even as a life long resident I've learnt so much.. Again, the overlays of the old Palace oevr present day are the best realisations I've seen and could be made into brilliant pieces of art!!!
I don't know why, but for years and years now I've been so obsessed and enamored by the Crystal Palace, even though I've never stepped foot on English soil. Amazing video, it really speaks to me. Hopefully I can one day make the trip to the palace grounds. I can't wait to watch the rest of the series. Brilliant job, thank you.
During the late fifties we lived on the outskirts of the Bethlem Royal Hospital. The view from our back window took us directly to the radio mast. I remember going round the park and, no doubt, the boating lake. Never did we think there was so much hidden or lost.
Just a fantastic series, thank you! I’ve long been fascinated by the Crystal Palace. What a shame they did not preserve the site better and simply bulldozed the remains away. To this day when you visit the site it feels quite ghostly as if there was something much more important there before. I have friends who remember their parents seeing the blaze in 1936 and keeping lumps of melted glass as souvenirs.
Thanks for these three videos on the Crystal Palace. It is only very recently that I first visited this park, even though I have known about it for years. This has now provided me with a much better understanding of what the original site looked like and how it was laid out. Also hadn't really appreciated just how big the exhibition actually was in terms of the overall layout and extent.
Absolutely loved this series Darren. As mentioned the fading in and out of old and new images is excellent and love the sad haunting music attached to them. Such a shame I wasn't around to see such an amazing building, but your videos have inspired me to go and see what remains for myself. Thank you
Loved every minute. I lived 5 mins from the Thicket Road entrance and this park was our playground. Such an amazing series we’ll done. Your research was so good, we loved the images especially. We always visit when we are in the UK.
Have always lived near to Crystal Palace and been fascinated by the history . This was a very informative film and I enjoyed the over lay transitions, showed me answers to a lot of my long thought questions. Thank you.
You just can’t imagine that beautiful place no longer there. So interesting to learn all about this fascinating piece of history. What a work and research Darren. Thank you for excellent work and filming. I would never have known about this place if not for you.
Darren, though I’m a fan of your channel anyway, these three episodes are exceptional. So much so I’m planning to head there later this year. Well done!
Awesome video this. I used to live along the route of crystal palace high level branch. My dad had actually been on it and used to point out where old bridges were along the route. When I was a kid in the late 80s / early 90s we actually walked along the route starting at nunhead. Good memories
We had a version of the Crystal Palace here in Sydney Australia, built on The Domain, next to the Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens, called The Garden Palace. It was of very similar scale and construction. I confess that looking at these photos of the Crystal Palace, and what it used to be, I find myself feeling a sense of loss for their no longer being with us. They were revolutionary for their time, extraordinarily beautiful, and our lives are diminished for their not being preserved for future generations.
I love the overlay of old photos, it really helps to get a sense of the sheer scale of the palace. It looks like it was absolutely enormous, almost like some sort of steampunk alien mothership had landed. Such a shame it was never rebuilt.
Congrats on 20k subscribers! Yet again, a superb set of videos. What makes these stand out is the accuracy of the overlays. The attention to detail is absolutely spot on.
Thanks for the fantastic series on the Crystal palace. I grew up in West Dulwich and in the 60s these underground cellars by the railway station were available to us kids (if you knew how to get in) and these were our playgrounds (until we were thrown out!) The whole of the Crystal Palace site was an amazing place but I didn't appreciate this at the time and I wish they had kept more of the original. I used to see the motor racing on the old track - very loud! Thanks for bringing back these memories.
Brilliant stuff - we used to go in that passageway under the street back in the 80's when we were kids. It was well dodgy then. And went in the tunnel at the end when the locks were broken - scary, that...
This has been such an interesting series! Thank you! The then and now edits bring the sheer scale of the palace and the excitement of the exhibition to life. So much so, that I would love the opportunity to go back in time and feel the electric atmosphere as people witnessed all of these amazing new proposals for rail travel and novelty rides, in the midst of truly massive architecture! Amazing 😎
This has been a fantastic series. I attended college at the sports ground in 2012 and always knew there was a history to the park, but never realised just how much! Thank you so much for sharing this, it's been a real pleasure to watch and such a well planned out set of videos.
We used to live in West Norwood. My elder sister came back many times explaining that they have been in the tunnel and walked it's length. This was around 45 years ago, but the excitement of those evenings is still in my head.
An amazing series for anyone local like me. If you ever come back let me know I’d like to meet up. I will also keep you informed if I ever hear of plans to find that railway underground. Latest I’ve heard was a plan to sell off a section surrounding the park in order to fund development of the Central part of the park.
Three excellent videos on the Crystal Palace, with reference to the third. The tunnel served Crystal Palace high level station from the previous station upper Sydenham was called the Paxton Tunnel 439 yards long double bore. As a seven or eight year old in the days when trains had guards that waived the red and green flags I rode with the guard from Upper Sydenham to Crystal Palace High Level would not be allowed today to much Health and Safety. The platforms at Crystal Palace High Level were all wood
Great video, lived two minutes from there as a kid from 1969 until 1980. I was present in 1971/72? when a dig was organized to find this underground railway. There was great excitement when a brick tunnel was found but it later turned out to probably be a drain. We also got into the tunnel near Crystal Palace Parade. So much history around that area. You covered it very well. ATB from Buenos Aires, Argentina where I live now. There is a great amount of British railway history hear too.
So interesting, especially as I remember seeing the Crystal Palace fire from my bedroom window, so sad. Thought the integration of the old photos was excellent.
I lived near this area for many decades and have done a lot of research about the past. Your 3 part video was absolute class beyond belief. You should have your own TV series you are that good! FA Cup finals were also played at the Crystal Palace between 1895-1914.
You've put a lot of effort into this and your facts are sound as well as that your knowledge is so on point that you've really matched up the scenes to present it like a then and now thing well done
I lived on Anerley Hill in the 50's and 60' and remember an excavation taking place on the Cricket Field. I was told that they were looking for remains of the Atmospheric Railway.
Excellent series! I've been fascinated by Crystal Palace for a long time and visited a few years ago to see what I could find remaining. My dad grew up in South London and remembered seeing the Crystal Palace fire from West Norwood.
Like some of your other commentators I remember being taken to see the Crystal Palace dinosaurs when I was a kid back in the 1970s. I really enjoyed this series of videos on the Crystal Palace, the surrounding grounds and transport infrastructure, it is the most comprehensive survey of the site today that I have seen. Thank you very much.
Really interesting and informative Thanks and so well researched and presented My Dad remembers seeing the fire from Horsenden Hill near perivale, he said a lot of people went up there to see it in 1936
Another fascinating 3 part series. All your hard work and effort you put into this shows. You are very dedicated to every vlog you do. You deserve an award for this. It's about time and effort you go through, and source as much history as you can. We can see before & after when you fade to what life was like beforehand . Keeps us gripped & pulls us in. Definitely worth watching. Keep up the great work Darren.
@@AdventureMe you could come to my hometown of Chichester and have a scout around there, huge amount of history, plus there are rumours among locals that there are loads of tunnels under the city… no one knows for sure.
@@CorbalianVoss I've done Portsmouth not too far from you. And I have a few more Pompey videos to come. Funnily enough I'm back down there this weekend but for different reasons.
In Australia we've also had Crystal Palaces very similar in design located in Sydney and Melbourne but on a smaller scale. Both of ours were built for the World Expo and both, from memory, suffered the same fate of being destroyed by fire afterward. Such a shame that they don't exist anymore.
Such a shame we have lost so much of our history to make way for new developments. Really enjoyed the series, great visual and very informative. Keep up the good work, you have a new subscriber after watching these videos.
Cheers for uploading, studied history in school and never knew about this. Just learnt something new aswell just learnt that we had numerous attempts at the Hyperloop. Especially with the monorail version up in Peterborough. Interesting video, cheers again and look forward to seeing more in future. 😀👍
As a fan of Crystal Palace History your videos have been AMAZING! The overlaying of photography on the modern locations has been so beautifully done. Love your use of music. Thanks for all your research!
This is the first time I've seen any of your videos. I was profoundly moved when you superimposed some of the images. It felt like a trip back in time. Absolutely amazing and really informative. Needless to say I've subscribed.
I have to add to the rest, and say stunning work, especially with those inch-accurate overlays. Also, that's by far the clearest account yet of the pneumatic railway. Great work.
Another great video Darren, the suction carriage thing looked very interesting. You did a brilliant job on a subject I didn't know bout. (time for you back in Yorkshire mind, that funny water and mucky air darn sarf no good for you!!!) I wonder whether the Palace would still be here "today" if not for the fire? I suppose it would be like the dome if it had survived. I meant to say me and poppy finally checked the whole of the Ringway out, and your words certainly resonated when I saw the sheer engineering excellence by the hecky station. Again it beggars belief that it was closed. I think you should go to Ireland and find out where and if the Battyeford bridge still exists. Great video, well done. Best wishes. Ben 🚌🚍🇬🇧🙏
Absolutely loved these videos, I’m from London and I’ve never known about any of the info you have provided in your videos, thank you so much for shooting them 😊
Thoroughly enjoyed your series on Crystal Palace (I have watched some of your disused railways in Leeds too). I don't know if you got the chance to see the tunnel portal of the High Level station, bur it is worth a visit with it's ornate brickwork and masonry. Sadly, it is securely sealed off to the public.
I grew up there. In the late 1970’s I played a concert with the All Saints orchestra in that underground vaulted place. Then in 1992 I recorded a pop video in that same place. The record company got special permission. It was an amazing place. Brings back fond memories.
What a brilliant series, love the now and then comparison pictures fading into each other, outstanding work👍
i used to live in farguhar road as a child & a teenager & i remember 'puffer' trains waking me up early in the morning as the front engines were reversed onto a turntable in a siding which ran parallel to the road; i could see the trains from my house; the bridge was further up the road to my right where there was a bend in the road, which joined up with crystal palace parade, where many buses terminated; i used to play in crystal palace park & the woods which were on the other side of the station wall.
@@normansmithers4465 Eye witness then mate ? Fantastic 🥰
@@Dan23_7 cheers! i lived in farquhar road from when i was born on november 7th 1945, until may 1977, when i was 31!
crystal palace was my favourite park because it had so much to see, including in the mid 60's, an athletic track, swimming pool , a motor racing track + several soccer pitches!
one of my neighbours was british athlete, alan pascoe, while my dad knew dual world motor car rider & motor cyclist, john surtees!
Thanks for watching.
@@AdventureMe See My Other Comment asI Cant Copy and Paste here for some Reason.
A fantastic series, brilliantly researched and executed, especially the overlay imagery! I predict big things for this channel :)
As a historian, I cannot begin to express how amazed I am at the level of work you put in your videos/research! Thank you so much for providing this level of dedication, effort, and quality work to this American who does not have the ability to visit London at the moment!!!
Wow, thank you!
I really admire the way you research these and manage to shoot and overlay images so accurately. This was fascinating.
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Thank you very much for a great series. I was lucky enough to live close to Penge Gate for over 20 years and spent many happy times in Crystal Palace Park. I would highly recommend a visit to Crystal Palace (Low Level) Station even if you are not intending to travel by train to see how a beautiful station can be restored and bought into the 21st century. Also if you ever get the chance to follow the disused railway from the High Level Station it is a great walk with loads to see. There are 2 tunnels (Paxton and Crescent Woods) which are not open but you can visit their portals. Upper Sydenham Station still exists as a private residence and in Sydenham Hill Woods as well as one of the portals to Crescent Wood tunnel there is a footbridge called Cox's Walk which used to cross the railway. In addition the old trackbed at Lordship Lane Station within the grounds of Horniman Museum has been turned into a nature reserve.
Thanks once again for bringing back happy memories.
Even that I have never seen any of the locations you are visiting, it's very exiting to see. So much history.
I love the fadings from past to present, thinking it must take a lot of effort making them.
Thanks for watching.
It always amazes me when you do the fade in pictures, how much places have changed but more so how it hasn't. hard to believe that some places remain exactly the same after so much time passing. great vid as always! :)
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As the saying goes, the more things change the more they stay the same.
A brilliantly fascinating series about Crystal Palace. When Will was at senior school in the early 80’s he had a teacher telling his class that he was a historian and he and a group of fellow historians were looking for the lost train carriage which they believed to be underground in Crystal Palace Park but as far as he is aware, they never found it and he’d heard no reference to it until your video which brought back some amazing memories of things he’d long since forgotten 😀👍🏼
Thanks for watching. More to come.
An absolutely amazing trio of documentaries. There is a tunnel entrance I remember (1960's) that you have not shown that was near the bus terminal and public toilets that went underground. These 3 videos are msm broadcast quality.
Thanks for watching.
Moved away from the area 2yrs ago now, always loved a sunny afternoon at Crystal Palace park. Thanks for video, had me reminiscing...👍
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Great video!
You’ve captured some great details and shown the old with the new very clearly, allowing the viewer to make sense of locations. Love it!
Fantastic series once again Darren ! Wouldn’t it be marvellous to see this palace in the flesh.
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Darren, I have to say that I’m most impressed with your 3 part series on the magnificent Crystal Palace exhibition formerly at Upper Sydenham/ Penge Wood, I grew up on Gipsy Hill back in the 60’s and have many vivid memories of exploring the different parts of what remains of the old exhibition building, the grounds and old high level railway, the railway tunnels (Paxton and Crescent Wood just below Upper Sydenham station), also the old track bed leading to Lordship Lane station (now a housing estate) and still in place is the footbridge over the line at Cox’s Walk. However, I did spot a slight error in your video where you said that the bridge where the high level station entrance was is the original bridge, unfortunately that is a modern replacement, I seem to remember them replacing it back in the 1980’s as the original was deemed unsafe, but everything else you have shown I believe is correct, I also remember that there was a coal merchants office that was on the corner next to the main entrance to the station which survived until about 1970. Anyway, I would like to congratulate you on a truly professional quality video series, it’s always a pleasure to hear about the old Crystal Palace exhibition and the incredible park as it was in its heyday, thank you for rekindling such wonderful memories growing up so close in such an historic area of London.
Thanks Peter. And thanks for the memories.
Brilliant Series... Even as a life long resident I've learnt so much.. Again, the overlays of the old Palace oevr present day are the best realisations I've seen and could be made into brilliant pieces of art!!!
Thanks for watching. More to come.
I don't know why, but for years and years now I've been so obsessed and enamored by the Crystal Palace, even though I've never stepped foot on English soil.
Amazing video, it really speaks to me. Hopefully I can one day make the trip to the palace grounds. I can't wait to watch the rest of the series. Brilliant job, thank you.
Me too. Thanks for watching
During the late fifties we lived on the outskirts of the Bethlem Royal Hospital. The view from our back window took us directly to the radio mast. I remember going round the park and, no doubt, the boating lake. Never did we think there was so much hidden or lost.
Thanks for watching
Just a fantastic series, thank you! I’ve long been fascinated by the Crystal Palace. What a shame they did not preserve the site better and simply bulldozed the remains away. To this day when you visit the site it feels quite ghostly as if there was something much more important there before. I have friends who remember their parents seeing the blaze in 1936 and keeping lumps of melted glass as souvenirs.
Glad you enjoyed it
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In der Kristallpalast Serie folge ich sehr gern. Danke Darren 🤗
Thanks Christel
You make me feel nostalgic towards an era that I've never even known. 🥰🥰🥰
Thanks for watching
Fantastic old and new picture coronation, so well produced, the presentation keeps my attention and wanting more, keep up the great work.
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Great series,absolutely fascinating! The Palace was an amazing structure. Really enjoyed the series, thanks for putting it together so well. John
Thanks for watching.
Thanks for these three videos on the Crystal Palace. It is only very recently that I first visited this park, even though I have known about it for years. This has now provided me with a much better understanding of what the original site looked like and how it was laid out. Also hadn't really appreciated just how big the exhibition actually was in terms of the overall layout and extent.
Thanks for watching. Yes it was massive.
Absolutely loved this series Darren. As mentioned the fading in and out of old and new images is excellent and love the sad haunting music attached to them. Such a shame I wasn't around to see such an amazing building, but your videos have inspired me to go and see what remains for myself. Thank you
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Excellent work. You truly deserve a TV show. Fred Dibnah would have loved this.
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Just stumbled across your videos can I just say amazing work well done! Give this man a series on TV
Great video with bags of historical background and supeb then/now image overlays. Excellent!
Thanks Richard
Loved every minute. I lived 5 mins from the Thicket Road entrance and this park was our playground. Such an amazing series we’ll done. Your research was so good, we loved the images especially. We always visit when we are in the UK.
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Have always lived near to Crystal Palace and been fascinated by the history . This was a very informative film and I enjoyed the over lay transitions, showed me answers to a lot of my long thought questions. Thank you.
Thanks Stuart. Did you see the other two episodes.
I have and I'm starting to watch more of your work 👍
You just can’t imagine that beautiful place no longer there. So interesting to learn all about this fascinating piece of history. What a work and research Darren. Thank you for excellent work and filming. I would never have known about this place if not for you.
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Many happy days watching the locomotives on the turntable.
Thanks mate, more to come very soon.
Darren, though I’m a fan of your channel anyway, these three episodes are exceptional. So much so I’m planning to head there later this year. Well done!
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Awesome video this. I used to live along the route of crystal palace high level branch. My dad had actually been on it and used to point out where old bridges were along the route. When I was a kid in the late 80s / early 90s we actually walked along the route starting at nunhead. Good memories
Thanks mate. Glad you enjoyed.
Incredible series better than mainstream programs on the BBC
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We had a version of the Crystal Palace here in Sydney Australia, built on The Domain, next to the Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens, called The Garden Palace. It was of very similar scale and construction. I confess that looking at these photos of the Crystal Palace, and what it used to be, I find myself feeling a sense of loss for their no longer being with us. They were revolutionary for their time, extraordinarily beautiful, and our lives are diminished for their not being preserved for future generations.
Thanks Daniel. Yes they were very revolutionary and sadly missed by our generation.
I love the overlay of old photos, it really helps to get a sense of the sheer scale of the palace. It looks like it was absolutely enormous, almost like some sort of steampunk alien mothership had landed. Such a shame it was never rebuilt.
Thanks mate.
Congrats on 20k subscribers!
Yet again, a superb set of videos. What makes these stand out is the accuracy of the overlays. The attention to detail is absolutely spot on.
Thanks mate. I tried my best with this one.
@@AdventureMe Well your best was perfect mate!
Thanks for the fantastic series on the Crystal palace. I grew up in West Dulwich and in the 60s these underground cellars by the railway station were available to us kids (if you knew how to get in) and these were our playgrounds (until we were thrown out!) The whole of the Crystal Palace site was an amazing place but I didn't appreciate this at the time and I wish they had kept more of the original. I used to see the motor racing on the old track - very loud! Thanks for bringing back these memories.
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Another fascinating video. Really glad to have found your channel. Keep up the great work.
Thanks for watching Daz.
As someone who's lived in the area since 1983, this is absolutely fascinating! So well produced; the super-imposition photos are perfect!
Great work. Well done. Loved this 3 part series.
Thanks for watching.
Superb. Great research, overlays and history. Congrats.
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Very nice video. Love the now and then overlays. It gives it a wonderful perspective.
Thanks for watching.
Didn't realise it was so extensive !!!!! Major eye opener !!
Brilliant stuff - we used to go in that passageway under the street back in the 80's when we were kids. It was well dodgy then. And went in the tunnel at the end when the locks were broken - scary, that...
Thanks for watching.
This has been such an interesting series! Thank you! The then and now edits bring the sheer scale of the palace and the excitement of the exhibition to life. So much so, that I would love the opportunity to go back in time and feel the electric atmosphere as people witnessed all of these amazing new proposals for rail travel and novelty rides, in the midst of truly massive architecture! Amazing 😎
Thanks for watching
This has been a fantastic series. I attended college at the sports ground in 2012 and always knew there was a history to the park, but never realised just how much! Thank you so much for sharing this, it's been a real pleasure to watch and such a well planned out set of videos.
Thanks Rose. I really enjoyed this one.
We used to live in West Norwood.
My elder sister came back many times explaining that they have been in the tunnel and walked it's length.
This was around 45 years ago, but the excitement of those evenings is still in my head.
Thanks for watching.
An amazing series for anyone local like me. If you ever come back let me know I’d like to meet up. I will also keep you informed if I ever hear of plans to find that railway underground. Latest I’ve heard was a plan to sell off a section surrounding the park in order to fund development of the Central part of the park.
Thanks for watching. Hopefully they don't sell it off.
Fascinating stuff,you've inspired me to make my own visit,thankyou.
You should!
Spectacular video! Thanks 🙏🏻
Three excellent videos on the Crystal Palace, with reference to the third. The tunnel served Crystal Palace high level station from the previous station upper Sydenham was called the Paxton Tunnel 439 yards long double bore. As a seven or eight year old in the days when trains had guards that waived the red and green flags I rode with the guard from Upper Sydenham to Crystal Palace High Level would not be allowed today to much Health and Safety. The platforms at Crystal Palace High Level were all wood
Great video, lived two minutes from there as a kid from 1969 until 1980. I was present in 1971/72? when a dig was organized to find this underground railway. There was great excitement when a brick tunnel was found but it later turned out to probably be a drain. We also got into the tunnel near Crystal Palace Parade. So much history around that area. You covered it very well. ATB from Buenos Aires, Argentina where I live now. There is a great amount of British railway history hear too.
Thanks David. Greetings to Argentina.
So interesting, especially as I remember seeing the Crystal Palace fire from my bedroom window, so sad. Thought the integration of the old photos was excellent.
Thanks Olive.
An excellent trio of videos and well narrated as usual. Good videography and informative.
Thank you very much!
Brilliant, as good as anything that the Beeb produces. Excellent
Thanks Ethan
A good ending to a great topic.Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome series... thank you for all your gard work.
No problem. Thanks
I appreciate all the research that you have done.
Thanks Lee
I lived near this area for many decades and have done a lot of research about the past. Your 3 part video was absolute class beyond belief. You should have your own TV series you are that good! FA Cup finals were also played at the Crystal Palace between 1895-1914.
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Outstanding video, production was spot on, and very fascinating to see.
Thanks Adam
Amazing research and video production. The best I have seen on You Tube by far!
Thanks Spenny. I am blushing with those comments. Makes me try harder.
You've put a lot of effort into this and your facts are sound as well as that your knowledge is so on point that you've really matched up the scenes to present it like a then and now thing well done
Thanks
I lived on Anerley Hill in the 50's and 60' and remember an excavation taking place on the Cricket Field. I was told that they were looking for remains of the Atmospheric Railway.
Excellent series! I've been fascinated by Crystal Palace for a long time and visited a few years ago to see what I could find remaining. My dad grew up in South London and remembered seeing the Crystal Palace fire from West Norwood.
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Like some of your other commentators I remember being taken to see the Crystal Palace dinosaurs when I was a kid back in the 1970s. I really enjoyed this series of videos on the Crystal Palace, the surrounding grounds and transport infrastructure, it is the most comprehensive survey of the site today that I have seen. Thank you very much.
Thanks Mark. I noticed there wasn't much around on UA-cam, so I decided to put that right.
Excellent video. Thank you
You are welcome!
Thank you again happy memories
Thanks for watching.
Very enjoyable viewing a good record of time 😊
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Really interesting and informative Thanks and so well researched and presented My Dad remembers seeing the fire from Horsenden Hill near perivale, he said a lot of people went up there to see it in 1936
Glad you enjoyed it
crazy! seeing that shot from the bridge of now and when the station was fully intact.
Thanks mate
Just watched all 3 thank you for doing these you really did your homework great stuff 👍🏻 so interesting, so sad it wasn’t rebuilt
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Another fascinating 3 part series. All your hard work and effort you put into this shows. You are very dedicated to every vlog you do. You deserve an award for this. It's about time and effort you go through, and source as much history as you can. We can see before & after when you fade to what life was like beforehand . Keeps us gripped & pulls us in. Definitely worth watching. Keep up the great work Darren.
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This is fascinating! Love the fading in and out photos
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@@AdventureMe these are nice adventures 👍🏻
@@AdventureMe you could come to my hometown of Chichester and have a scout around there, huge amount of history, plus there are rumours among locals that there are loads of tunnels under the city… no one knows for sure.
@@CorbalianVoss I've done Portsmouth not too far from you. And I have a few more Pompey videos to come. Funnily enough I'm back down there this weekend but for different reasons.
Excellent, well researched and nicely presented. Subscribed.
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In Australia we've also had Crystal Palaces very similar in design located in Sydney and Melbourne but on a smaller scale. Both of ours were built for the World Expo and both, from memory, suffered the same fate of being destroyed by fire afterward. Such a shame that they don't exist anymore.
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So enjoyable - great series 👍🏻
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Well done watched all 3 amazing thanks
Awesome! Thank you!
Just loved that. Thankyou 🙂
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Such a shame we have lost so much of our history to make way for new developments. Really enjoyed the series, great visual and very informative. Keep up the good work, you have a new subscriber after watching these videos.
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Cheers for uploading, studied history in school and never knew about this. Just learnt something new aswell just learnt that we had numerous attempts at the Hyperloop. Especially with the monorail version up in Peterborough. Interesting video, cheers again and look forward to seeing more in future. 😀👍
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Brilliant video and liked the overlay of the Crystal place with the modern red double deck bus at the end. Thank you.
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Played here when I was a kid!
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As a fan of Crystal Palace History your videos have been AMAZING! The overlaying of photography on the modern locations has been so beautifully done. Love your use of music. Thanks for all your research!
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Incredible video. Lived in CP all my life and you’ve just done an incredible job. The blending of the now and old images is amazing
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This is the first time I've seen any of your videos. I was profoundly moved when you superimposed some of the images. It felt like a trip back in time. Absolutely amazing and really informative. Needless to say I've subscribed.
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loved this series mate, really well put together
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This was great, like the use of old B&W photos fading in and out with todays views. Just subscribed....
Thanks Mike. I do that in a lot of my videos.
@@AdventureMe It's great, as it really adds to the story and gives us a point of view from the past. Thanks again.....
Wow what a structural masterpiece and a great informative vid thanks 👌
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I have to add to the rest, and say stunning work, especially with those inch-accurate overlays. Also, that's by far the clearest account yet of the pneumatic railway. Great work.
Thanks mark. I tried my best.
Another great video Darren, the suction carriage thing looked very interesting. You did a brilliant job on a subject I didn't know bout. (time for you back in Yorkshire mind, that funny water and mucky air darn sarf no good for you!!!) I wonder whether the Palace would still be here "today" if not for the fire? I suppose it would be like the dome if it had survived.
I meant to say me and poppy finally checked the whole of the Ringway out, and your words certainly resonated when I saw the sheer engineering excellence by the hecky station. Again it beggars belief that it was closed. I think you should go to Ireland and find out where and if the Battyeford bridge still exists.
Great video, well done. Best wishes. Ben 🚌🚍🇬🇧🙏
Thanks Ben. Glad you got to check it out.
Absolutely loved these videos, I’m from London and I’ve never known about any of the info you have provided in your videos, thank you so much for shooting them 😊
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Amazing. Quite haunting
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A very well made and well researched video.
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Thoroughly enjoyed your series on Crystal Palace (I have watched some of your disused railways in Leeds too). I don't know if you got the chance to see the tunnel portal of the High Level station, bur it is worth a visit with it's ornate brickwork and masonry. Sadly, it is securely sealed off to the public.
Yes this is the tunnel I mention in my comment.
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I grew up there. In the late 1970’s I played a concert with the All Saints orchestra in that underground vaulted place. Then in 1992 I recorded a pop video in that same place. The record company got special permission. It was an amazing place. Brings back fond memories.
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Very interesting and informative
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Wow mate, that was super interesting! Excellent video, love the fading in with the old photo's... and ur drone-flying is tops! Just subscribed :P
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Thank you - fascinating -
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Hey! Thanks for the great video! I really enjoyed it. Subbed!
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Having worked at sports centre for 8 yrs hardly any mention of the original Palace was ever mentioned. We did floodlight the Paxton head entrance.