Adventures of a pioneer
Jun 29, 2022
1 minute
Benjamin Brecknell Turner's typical fare included the ivy-clad walls of Ludlow Castle in Shropshire, a battered row, filled with rural scenes, churches and castles, kicked off with two photographs of Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, taken in March, 1852, just after it had been cleared of the Great Exhibition displays and ahead of its dismantling and reassembly in Sydenham Hill, south London. The images capture the striking scale of Joseph Paxton's glass-and-steel construction, as well as one of Hyde Park's long-lost elms.
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