2-699-449 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Site of the Crystal Palace in 1852', (c1878). The countryside at Sydenham, then a village outside London, before the construction of the Crystal Palace which gave its name to the area. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, And Its Places. The Southern Suburbs, Volume VI, by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, c1878]