London, Brighton and South Coast Railway closely involved with the company that purchased The Crystal Palace after the completion of The Great Exhibition in October 1851 and arranged for its removal to a site on Sydenham Hill, close to the London to Brighton main line, where it became a major tourist attraction. The LB&SCR therefore encouraged the West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway to build a branch line from Sydenham, opened in June 1854. This was extended in a wide arc round south London to Wandsworth in 1856 and Battersea Pier in 1858. Shortly after the line was completed, the LB&SCR leased it and
The Crystal Palace Poultry Show shows existence. In 1892 numbers were falling, though the show still attracted 6300 entries. By the 1907 show was much more successful with 10,533 cages filled (the total number of birds unknown, as many cages held pairs) while the 1912 show had 16,257 entries. The Crystal Palace Poultry Show The Crystal Palace Poultry Show (variously also the International Poultry Show and Great Poultry Show) was a poultry show held at The Crystal Palace in London in the United Kingdom. They ran from 1857-1936, with interruption by World War I. It was the world's largest poultry exhibition at several times in