The Crystal Palace: An Omen of Things to Come

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  • @megaprojects9649
    @megaprojects96493 жыл бұрын

    This video is sponsored by Ground News. Download Ground News for free here: check.ground.news/megaprojects

  • @bencarley6896

    @bencarley6896

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hows about a mega projects on the Atlantic wall during ww2? It was pretty impressive, turning the entire coastline of France into a fortress

  • @bluthammer1442

    @bluthammer1442

    3 жыл бұрын

    Left wing news, right wing news, centre news. Didnt really know facts had political leanings. At least we have the choice of cancer i guess.

  • @motherreaper7287

    @motherreaper7287

    3 жыл бұрын

    Please do Minas Tirith next. So far as mega projects go I think that one deserves some coverage.

  • @Louisianacentral8

    @Louisianacentral8

    3 жыл бұрын

    How about the Manchester to Liverpool railway constructed by Robert Stephenson

  • @nighthawk043

    @nighthawk043

    3 жыл бұрын

    Small correction: I believe "Gaelic" /ˈɡeɪlɪk/ which you pronounced (4:32), usually refers to the scottish or irish celts. "Gallic " /ˈɡalɪk/ would normally be used for the gauls of France. Both the celts and the gauls are essentially part of the same group (relating to Roman Gaul), but still probably best to call them differently, as most of continental western Europe, and most of Great Britain fit within Roman Gaul. Also, I don't think a Scot would like being called French?

  • @Absol152
    @Absol1523 жыл бұрын

    Megaproject idea, the incredible progression of Simon Whistler's beard

  • @gamersrepublic6920

    @gamersrepublic6920

    3 жыл бұрын

    If you watched business blaze you'd know that the beard came to a very sad end at the hands of his wife's decision trumping his.

  • @fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718

    @fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@gamersrepublic6920 If that isn't pvssy-whipped I don't know what is. Why get married to a guy with a beard if you don't like beards?

  • @gamersrepublic6920

    @gamersrepublic6920

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718 she didn't make him shave it off, just made him trim it for family pictures

  • @Absol152

    @Absol152

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@gamersrepublic6920 ALLEGEDLY

  • @josh_1518

    @josh_1518

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Absol152 ABUSE HE WAS FORCED IT WAS ABUSE

  • @___David__
    @___David__3 жыл бұрын

    We also had a Crystal Palace in Portugal, built around the same time, by a Brit upon commission. But ours didn't burned down. It was demolished by the government in 1951 a movement so unpopular that to this day, almost 70 years after the fact, the gardens and the area in which the building was is still refered to as Crystal Palace. Including by people too young to have even seen it in their lifetimes.

  • @--enyo--

    @--enyo--

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's pretty interesting. I'd like to look up more on that.

  • @MrMoparbob498

    @MrMoparbob498

    3 жыл бұрын

    David Check out auto Didactic with Cambell or Jon Levi or Flat Earth British & you will get the run down on this plus. Will blow your mind

  • @dsm02c

    @dsm02c

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this comment. It’s cool.

  • @Coys319

    @Coys319

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bob Fedder what?

  • @grlt23

    @grlt23

    3 жыл бұрын

    So... honestly when I have read the title I was so excited - I thought it will be video about Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center [a.k.a. Doom Mountain or NORAD HQ]. It is definitively another mega-project.

  • @EricDavidRocks
    @EricDavidRocks2 жыл бұрын

    "It's boring." -- I knew it, Simon is an American at heart.

  • @Parso77
    @Parso773 жыл бұрын

    Out of interest my father saw the Crystal Palace burn down with his own eyes. He turns 90 on Tuesday...

  • @Antihm-js7wc

    @Antihm-js7wc

    21 күн бұрын

    My mum watched it burn down she was 16 at the time.

  • @gaatzaat
    @gaatzaat3 жыл бұрын

    My grandmother told me that the fire was so huge you could see a glow in the sky that night from the other side of the city. She was just a kid when it happened but could recall it quite clearly.

  • @Aasthakhanna27

    @Aasthakhanna27

    3 жыл бұрын

    That is insane!!!

  • @highpath4776

    @highpath4776

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Aasthakhanna27 Well if you go to either Alexander Palace or Primrose Hill about 6 miles to the north of london you can view the Norwood Heights that form part of Sydenham Hill area and see the pair of TV transmitters quite clearly ( about 6 miles to the South of London )

  • @joedarpa9566

    @joedarpa9566

    2 жыл бұрын

    she was right it had its own light source but they won't tell us that........we have been lied to so much

  • @-oiiio-3993

    @-oiiio-3993

    Жыл бұрын

    @@joedarpa9566 Fire is it's "own light source", fool.

  • @simonjewers6778
    @simonjewers67783 жыл бұрын

    During my fire service training we were told that the time taken between the fire being discovered and the first call to the Fire Brigade was 36 minutes. The streets were full of people who were wondering why the Fire Brigade had not arrived, and they all thought that someone else must have phoned up as it was such a big fire. I feel that this point was sufficiently interesting to have been included, as a quick phone call could have saved the building.

  • @todddiesen2647
    @todddiesen26473 жыл бұрын

    To quote a professor of mine, “the reason the sun never set on the British Empire was because even god didn’t trust those bastards in the dark”

  • @elgatto3133

    @elgatto3133

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's RAW

  • @personatthebay

    @personatthebay

    3 жыл бұрын

    And definetally not from your profs quote😅

  • @kickofftheboot

    @kickofftheboot

    3 жыл бұрын

    😂🤣

  • @ronee1959

    @ronee1959

    3 жыл бұрын

    It was said by Shasi Tharoor in An Era Of Darkness: the British Empire in India

  • @randomobserver8168

    @randomobserver8168

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ronee1959 Indians have ample complaints, especially about economic exploitation, but considering the region's history as one of rise and fall of empires, with each new one rising by wiping out the successor states of collapsed predecessors, and many of them of foreign origin, the politics and war that produced the British empire there were pretty normal stuff. They just like over egging the pudding in recent years.

  • @davidcatanach2620
    @davidcatanach26203 жыл бұрын

    Insurance Assessor: So, your leaky building made entirely of steel and glass caught fire?.....

  • @jokuvaan5175

    @jokuvaan5175

    3 жыл бұрын

    The floors were wooden right?

  • @applejacks971

    @applejacks971

    3 жыл бұрын

    They lost their building in a boating accident...

  • @InVinoVeratas

    @InVinoVeratas

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's like they say, fires can't melt steel beams.

  • @YeeSoest

    @YeeSoest

    3 жыл бұрын

    Is this where I tell people about the german dude who had a fire ensurance on his cigar collection, wanted to cash the money once they "burned down slowly over several evenings", won the case but was then charged with arson and went to jail? No? Sorry

  • @Lozzie74

    @Lozzie74

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bailey Green don’t let facts ruin your story. How is steel originally smelted and cast? Using fires.

  • @shonapushedplay4326
    @shonapushedplay43263 жыл бұрын

    This is my local park. While there's no major structures left aside from the terraces you can see lots of little remnants and the dinosaurs are grossly understated in this. They're protected, being restored to their Victorian glory and wonderful! It's a pretty lovely park. Oh and there's a small museum next to what's left of one of the water towers. Worthy of a day out when in London (just check opening times, it's entirely volunteer run so is only open one day a week I think).

  • @gnomad42
    @gnomad423 жыл бұрын

    9:47, "Project began in 1950"?? Don't you mean 1850?

  • @shaunholmes9900

    @shaunholmes9900

    3 жыл бұрын

    I did a double take when he said 1950. Was like are you sure about that.

  • @ShawnWigginsKafka

    @ShawnWigginsKafka

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, caught that too!!

  • @rklammer

    @rklammer

    3 жыл бұрын

    silly simon

  • @scottbruffy9071

    @scottbruffy9071

    3 жыл бұрын

    I rewound it to make sure. Yep.

  • @EscapeLife2011

    @EscapeLife2011

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes I think he meant 1850 we all had to rewind just to make sure

  • @RDSwords
    @RDSwords Жыл бұрын

    Despite so stubbornly refusing to simply watch a couple of Star Wars movies, Simon really nails some strong Palpatine vibes every time he says EMPIIIIIRE lol.

  • @toffeefuchs
    @toffeefuchs2 жыл бұрын

    When I first learnt English in school there was a story about the crystal palace and the great exhibition in our textbook. It was written like a short historical fiction of a kid (I think a little girl) going to see the exhibition with their family. It had a drawing of the building next to it and I vividly remember wanting to see this in person. When the teacher later told us that the building doesn't exist anymore I was very very disappointed. Now more than a decade later this video reminds me how badly I wanted to see this building. Maybe I should finally get around to write a time travel story where the protagonist gets to visit it.

  • @albertjackinson
    @albertjackinson3 жыл бұрын

    Megaprojects idea: The construction of the Hubble Space Telescope.

  • @DavidJohnson-dp4vv

    @DavidJohnson-dp4vv

    3 жыл бұрын

    You mean James Webb

  • @SigEpBlue

    @SigEpBlue

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@DavidJohnson-dp4vv That's a near unequivocal neverending story.

  • @albertjackinson

    @albertjackinson

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@DavidJohnson-dp4vv Both were constructed, obviously.

  • @DavidJohnson-dp4vv

    @DavidJohnson-dp4vv

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@SigEpBlue I honestly do like that reply.

  • @dennisbast743

    @dennisbast743

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@DavidJohnson-dp4vv Isn't "The James Webb Telescope" a science fiction story? I forget the author's name. Suggestion? ;-)))

  • @Tarotb
    @Tarotb3 жыл бұрын

    Never realized it was quite so big; always imagined it as just a big greenhouse. Thanks; great video.

  • @amyhogarten5038
    @amyhogarten50383 жыл бұрын

    This building is considered an one of the first examples of “Modern Architecture” with its extensive use of glass and steel. It’s an incredible project; thanks for do an awesome video on it‼️‼️

  • @fromgermany271

    @fromgermany271

    3 жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately it was not flexible steel, but brittle cast iron.

  • @andrewskivington6453
    @andrewskivington64533 жыл бұрын

    My mum was 11 and living in London at the time. She remembered the fire as it lit up the sky over the whole of the city.

  • @markwallace1727
    @markwallace17273 жыл бұрын

    Simon: "I don't follow football. It's boring." *Proceeds to give it's size in football pitches too* Yes, it really does appear to be a unit of measurement, much like any amount of water is given in number of Olympic swimming pools. (Neither helps me). Nice work as always on the video Simon.

  • @spamcan61

    @spamcan61

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'd also nominate blue wales, London buses and Nelson's column as meaningless measurement units.

  • @rednammoc

    @rednammoc

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@spamcan61 While you may have meant "blue whales", the land area of Wales is another common unit of measurement too

  • @ObservationofLimits

    @ObservationofLimits

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ironically, pitches also aren’t a standard size. They simply have to fall within certain dimensions.

  • @greenspittgames7374
    @greenspittgames73743 жыл бұрын

    Commenting until Simon makes that video about cargo ships he said he would do

  • @AndrewTJackson

    @AndrewTJackson

    3 жыл бұрын

    Escargo ships.

  • @fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718

    @fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well, it sometimes takes weeks to months to make a video, particularly with the research that goes into documentaries, so have fun with that. It'll probably be quicker to do the research yourself instead of waiting for someone to spoon-feed it to you.

  • @wolf3794

    @wolf3794

    3 жыл бұрын

    Stop asking Simon, ask EtA instead!

  • @roberthill3207

    @roberthill3207

    3 жыл бұрын

    I will as well have a great day.

  • @MAGGOT_VOMIT

    @MAGGOT_VOMIT

    3 жыл бұрын

    _I just heard echoes of haunting laughter followed by the phrase,_ _"Poo Faced Git".......{0.o}......I dunno._

  • @annabendewald5078
    @annabendewald50783 жыл бұрын

    “The building began in 1950.” I think that was a mistake. Was it 1850?

  • @audreymuzingo933

    @audreymuzingo933

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah wtf, I had to replay that, thinking maybe he said 1915 which would at least be closer, but still not right.

  • @tinmachine693

    @tinmachine693

    2 жыл бұрын

    I checked it out on ground news. The left said 1750,the centre 1850 & the right 1950.

  • @audreymuzingo933

    @audreymuzingo933

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@tinmachine693 What is 'ground news' and by 'left, center, right' are you talking about the parts of the building?

  • @tinmachine693

    @tinmachine693

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@audreymuzingo933 the sponsor of this video gives you the news from 3 different perspectives. Go to comments at the top of the page .

  • @catholiccrusader5328

    @catholiccrusader5328

    2 жыл бұрын

    Anna you beat me to it.

  • @kevinmobile
    @kevinmobile Жыл бұрын

    Your video took me back to my work place that was simply called....Crystal Palace. And the site of the 700 ft BBC television tower where I spent 21 fascinating years from 1976 helping to transmit and broadcast 405 line and 625 line television pictures to over 10m viewers in London. Each time I walked over the 'top site' as we called it, I usually found remnants of broken and melted glass from that famous fire reminding me of my own father who recounted how he saw the building burn down in 1936 from his adjacent home town of Beckenham when he was just 15. It is said a river of molten glass poured down Sydenham hill worryingly in his direction!

  • @donalodomhnaill
    @donalodomhnaill3 жыл бұрын

    Simon, your videos are brilliant. This one in particular was extra emotional. I love the history of the Crystal Palace. Keep up the amazing brilliant work. Seriously, you are one of the best channels on KZread at the moment. Thanks for all the great content!

  • @hullinstruments
    @hullinstruments2 жыл бұрын

    It’s refreshing to hear someone describe their nation accurately and brutally honest. I live in the southern United States, and I love my country…. But hate all the suffering it’s brought to the world.

  • @IRMacGuyver

    @IRMacGuyver

    Жыл бұрын

    Then move out

  • @anyawillowfan
    @anyawillowfan3 жыл бұрын

    One of the most impressive things about the Crystal Palace/the Great Exhibition is that people of all classes mingled as they walked through it. Previously rich people wouldn't regularly see the working class during their social hours/shopping etc, and vice versa.

  • @NikhilAngadBakshi
    @NikhilAngadBakshi3 жыл бұрын

    Having lived in CP, visited the museum and knowing a bit of trivia about it, this video was particularly interesting. Thanks Simon. Now I can continue to rant to my coworkers about Crystal Palace unapologetically :p

  • @MarielaQue
    @MarielaQue3 жыл бұрын

    I wish the Crystal Palace did still exist

  • @shindari

    @shindari

    3 жыл бұрын

    Could easily be rebuilt, at a fraction of the time, today (probably not at a fraction of the cost, though). The trouble is, England doesn't want to do it anymore, and even the United States would struggle to get it even started, from the sheer scale of political opposition any party who proposed it would receive (If Trump proposed it, he'd probably ASSASSINATED the next day!)

  • @_Abjuranax_

    @_Abjuranax_

    3 жыл бұрын

    Infomart in Dallas is a smaller, albeit quite large replica based on the Crystal Palaces' design, and has probably influenced many other buildings as well.

  • @justinvandergriff

    @justinvandergriff

    3 жыл бұрын

    it does exist. its in dallas. i drive by it all the time. its owned by infomart now en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infomart

  • @gormauslander

    @gormauslander

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@shindari megaprojects aren't typically government enterprises here in the USA. It would be done by a wealthy enthusiast

  • @shindari

    @shindari

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@gormauslander Which means that Trump will find some kind of "wealthy enthusiast" to build him that "Mexican Wall" he's been dreaming of for four years...

  • @CammanderDart
    @CammanderDart3 жыл бұрын

    Y'all should do a video on Chicago's World Fair, Like how the city rebuilt itself and expanded itself in record time to get the worlds fair.

  • @david5372

    @david5372

    3 жыл бұрын

    ...and don't forget to mention that the entire enterprise in 1893 was lit and powered by -- (who else?) -- NIKOLA TESLA!!

  • @-oiiio-3993

    @-oiiio-3993

    Жыл бұрын

    @@david5372 As chief engineer for Westinghouse. Tesla's system was more efficient and vastly undercut the competing bid of Edison.

  • @juliaclark7354
    @juliaclark73542 жыл бұрын

    I love Simon! He makes it so much fun to learn. As I was watching this, I remembered seeing a strangely similar-looking building in Dallas, Texas. It’s called Infomart and it was, in fact, designed to resemble The Crystal Palace. There’s a Wikipedia article on it that says it was originally a sort-of permanent trade-show space, but later was converted to a “technology office and data center.”

  • @stephenlane9168
    @stephenlane91683 жыл бұрын

    Another blindingly good video of interest Simon & production team 👌🙏thank you

  • @TheBooban
    @TheBooban3 жыл бұрын

    15:37 A small fire? They did insurance scams back then too.

  • @WolvenSpectre

    @WolvenSpectre

    3 жыл бұрын

    What the hell were coats made of back then? I know billiard balls sometimes exploded but what in a coat room would go BOOM?

  • @NM-wd7kx

    @NM-wd7kx

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@WolvenSpectre collars were often made of cellulite (same as billiard balls, I believe), but fur, wool, cotton, waxed linen, etc. all delightfully flammable

  • @monad_tcp

    @monad_tcp

    3 жыл бұрын

    but how that much glass and iron burned? what did the fire got so hot? or was there a lot of wood too?

  • @countzero1136

    @countzero1136

    3 жыл бұрын

    My father always insisted that it was an insurance job too

  • @countzero1136

    @countzero1136

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@WolvenSpectre I'm pretty sure the fire had a bit of help - after all, the place had been losing money for some time beforehand

  • @markchip1
    @markchip13 жыл бұрын

    "GAELIC" COUSINS!?!??? (the French) I think you mean "Gallic"!!

  • @countzero1136

    @countzero1136

    3 жыл бұрын

    I winced at that one as well :)

  • @todddiesen2647

    @todddiesen2647

    3 жыл бұрын

    Because the Scots and Irish were poised to overcome the Welsh... really. Honest.

  • @bicyclist2
    @bicyclist23 жыл бұрын

    I knew about this from a TV show in the 80's. I had forgotten about this. Thanks for the history. I downloaded Ground News.

  • @normanhumphrey9695
    @normanhumphrey96953 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic story and very well presented. Thank you for this excellent video.

  • @b.w.22
    @b.w.223 жыл бұрын

    My great-great-great grandfather had a huge Victorian greenhouse in this style. I don’t think many remain, though they’re so striking. They also had a courtyard where they played human chess, so it’s all a bygone world I guess.

  • @celticlass8573
    @celticlass85733 жыл бұрын

    I've often thought that if you were a person with a curious mind, the decades from the 1850s to 1920s would have been an incredible time to be alive.

  • @olgadupreez5145
    @olgadupreez51452 жыл бұрын

    Great video as always thanks! I especially enjoyed Simon's pronounciation of 'Empahr'!

  • @dazman76
    @dazman763 жыл бұрын

    4:31 "...outdo their Gaelic cousins..." - that should be Gallic cousins, right?

  • @markchip1

    @markchip1

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nah - just a bunch of tourists from Cardiff quarantined in Paris!

  • @6FuriousD9

    @6FuriousD9

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah buddy. Fully paused the video there and replied it. It's Gallic Simon, gal-ik

  • @Jake-mf5sn

    @Jake-mf5sn

    3 жыл бұрын

    This bugged me far more than it should have.

  • @scottwhitley3392

    @scottwhitley3392

    3 жыл бұрын

    Mark Chippendale the Welsh aren’t Gaelic either 😂

  • @alexhamilton4084

    @alexhamilton4084

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not the only error he made. He said construction started in 1951 not 1851 😂

  • @JohnDoe-vm2di
    @JohnDoe-vm2di3 жыл бұрын

    Did you know that Back in 1985, a developer built an office building that was modeled after the The Crystal Palace in Dallas, TX? Its called the Infomart building and its the closest the world has to The Crystal Palace. Ive never been inside myself, but it’s right off the highway and very distinctive looking. You cant miss it. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infomart

  • @YaBoiAltair

    @YaBoiAltair

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wait lmao I drive by this all the time I thought it WAS the Crystal Palace that he would be talking about

  • @JohnDoe-vm2di

    @JohnDoe-vm2di

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@YaBoiAltair I drive by it all the time too. Ive always liked it because it’s distinctive looking.

  • @Alanpie314

    @Alanpie314

    2 жыл бұрын

    I was there back in the 80s. Fascinating place. I'm sure it's not as big as the original, though I don't know the actual dimensions of either building.

  • @--enyo--
    @--enyo--3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, I really found this fascinating.

  • @SSmith-fm9kg
    @SSmith-fm9kg Жыл бұрын

    Great video. I always wondered about the history of the structure. Thanks.

  • @fikanera838
    @fikanera8383 жыл бұрын

    Megaproject suggestion: ancient buildings with domes, especially double-skinned ones (like medieval cathedrals) where the inside is quite different to the outside. Love the range of this channel!

  • @TzarHiroki10
    @TzarHiroki103 жыл бұрын

    Simon’s beard is THE mega project and I love it!

  • @Darkhalfcustoms
    @Darkhalfcustoms3 жыл бұрын

    I had never heard of this one and I studied quite a bit of history. Good closing line very epic in the presentation. Like you felt the loss your self.

  • @peacefamily212
    @peacefamily2123 жыл бұрын

    Thank you your videos are fab! Best Wishes x

  • @dahak972
    @dahak9723 жыл бұрын

    Holy sh*t Simon, that’s a helluva beard you’re rockin’ there. Great video guys, thank you!

  • @mikebailey783
    @mikebailey7833 жыл бұрын

    4:30 - Ahh, hold on there; you've called the French 'Gaelic', which is in fact the language spoken in Ireland & Scotland. You mean 'Gallic'; as in 'Gaul'.

  • @rednammoc

    @rednammoc

    3 жыл бұрын

    It was galling to hear this mispronunciation...

  • @rogerknights857

    @rogerknights857

    3 жыл бұрын

    He also said 1950.

  • @ryancrucena755

    @ryancrucena755

    2 жыл бұрын

    All your pfp is green :D

  • @hobbitreet
    @hobbitreet3 жыл бұрын

    I had heard of this building but knew little about it; thank you for expanding my education.

  • @oddsandwindsocks5905
    @oddsandwindsocks59053 жыл бұрын

    Great video as always Simon. Love to see you cover the building of the cntower in Canada.

  • @tokyoskid901
    @tokyoskid9013 жыл бұрын

    Would love to see the Chicago worlds fair grounds as well!

  • @christophermerlot3366

    @christophermerlot3366

    3 жыл бұрын

    The Ferris Wheel alone was a megaproject.

  • @shindari

    @shindari

    3 жыл бұрын

    Always been rather curious about the one in Queens, NY, too. As that was my home town, and I always saw the "remains" of that event, which took place before I was even a fetus. Only my parents could tell me what it was really like, and I'd love to hear a bit about that one... just on a personal level, mind you. I don't really care if it was truly amazing, or not.

  • @robertcothern7504

    @robertcothern7504

    3 жыл бұрын

    Devil in the white city. This book has great descriptions of the Chicago worlds fair( along with the worst serial killer ever)

  • @archie6472
    @archie64723 жыл бұрын

    I would love to see a video on this channel about the tower London were going to build to rival Paris’ Eiffel Tower and become the tallest building in the world, it was going to be built in Wembley and began construction, but then stopped.

  • @paulqueripel3493

    @paulqueripel3493

    3 жыл бұрын

    Built on boggy land and started to tilt if I remember correctly. So it would have been a cross between Eiffel and Pisa.

  • @highpath4776

    @highpath4776

    3 жыл бұрын

    See Jago Hazzard on Watkins Tower. One vid to come too I think on the cemetary tower planned for north london

  • @carriere888

    @carriere888

    3 жыл бұрын

    would have been epic

  • @davidlorryman998
    @davidlorryman998 Жыл бұрын

    My school used the sports complex at Crystal Palace. I can remember trying to take a shortcut to the bus stop up the old stone stairs. I think we were thwarted by a missing piece of staircase. Still had a magic atmosphere. Great episode. Thank you.

  • @kennyhagan5781
    @kennyhagan57813 жыл бұрын

    The stories I find here have a little bit of everything.... that's an awesome thing.

  • @gottjager760
    @gottjager7603 жыл бұрын

    "Derbyshire in the North Of England", someones from the South.

  • @Jack-hg1hq

    @Jack-hg1hq

    3 жыл бұрын

    so how would you describe it then

  • @gottjager760

    @gottjager760

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Jack-hg1hq "it's in the south" - Someone from the North

  • @Jack-hg1hq

    @Jack-hg1hq

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@gottjager760 I'm very confused, so your from the north or south?

  • @gottjager760

    @gottjager760

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Jack-hg1hq I'm from Derby. Northerners tell me I'm Southern, and Southerners tell me I'm Northern.

  • @Jack-hg1hq

    @Jack-hg1hq

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@gottjager760 ah, I live near stockport and have the same issue, people from newcastle think we are basically londoners, people from london think we are practically scottish, I say we are north west/ midlands depending where in derbyshire

  • @thomaszielke866
    @thomaszielke8663 жыл бұрын

    Megaprojects idea: The Amber Room.

  • @LisaBowers

    @LisaBowers

    3 жыл бұрын

    Your wish was granted today!

  • @redhotchilipapa5388

    @redhotchilipapa5388

    3 жыл бұрын

    Megamystery: no really, where did ze Germans hide that thing?

  • @sandraa.lelacheur3001
    @sandraa.lelacheur30013 жыл бұрын

    Great work Simon !

  • @billblank9932
    @billblank99323 жыл бұрын

    Simon is brilliant and always fun to watch. Hadn't heard of the Crystal Palace before, so when the year came up, it reminded me of a very different story that started in England. In December 1850, a woman named Anne Berry boarded the Roscius with her family, in Liverpool. They'd traveled there from Roscommon in flight from the famine. One of her sons went on to fight and die in the American Civil War, but Anne never made it to New York. The Roscius made port in the winter of 1851, but Anne died on the voyage. No, not directly related to the Palace, but the one story about that year, evoked the other.

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn22233 жыл бұрын

    1:30 - Chapter 1 - Crystal Palaced 2:40 - Chapter 2 - Pax Britannica 4:00 - Chapter 3 - The great exhibition 5:10 - Chapter 4 - Design competition 7:50 - Chapter 5 - The largest glass house 9:40 - Chapter 6 - Construction 12:05 - Chapter 7 - The grand opening 14:00 - Chapter 8 - After the greatest show on earth 15:35 - Chapter 9 - The great fire

  • @mancavegamingandgardening9901
    @mancavegamingandgardening99013 жыл бұрын

    Would love to learn more about that Great Stove. Interesting to see how greenhouse technology has come along since the 1800s.

  • @Kethambelle

    @Kethambelle

    3 жыл бұрын

    Interesting fact: The Great Stove was so large that Queen Victoria was able to ride around the inside using a horse and carriage during her visit in 1843. Sir Joseph Paxton really deserves his own video on Simon's other channel Biographics. He was an amazing horticulturist, landscape architect and engineer, as well as an author, journalist and board member of three different railway companies. At just 20 he was running an experimental arboretum for the Royal Horticultural Society, by 22 he was the head gardener at Chatsworth House, where he designed and installed the Emperor Fountain (able to reach 290m), built the Great Stove, won national prizes for the fruit he produced and became the world leading expert on the dahlia. Oh and there's a wonderful story about the head botanist at Kew asking Paxton to help him save an ailing specimen of an extremely rare lily......so Paxton designed and built a special hothouse and had the thing flowering within three months. Not bad for someone born into a poor farming family during the early 19th century.

  • @mancavegamingandgardening9901

    @mancavegamingandgardening9901

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Kethambelle not the type of reply I was expecting 7 months later, but I have been flush with joy since reading more about this guy. Simon, where the hell is our Biographics!?

  • @Kethambelle

    @Kethambelle

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@mancavegamingandgardening9901 Hahaha sorry, I just got excited at the chance to go on a rant about Paxton, he was such an interesting guy.

  • @richardbenson4750
    @richardbenson47503 жыл бұрын

    Awesome concept of ground news...

  • @ground_news

    @ground_news

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the support Richard! Try out our app and let us know what you think.

  • @joestephan1111
    @joestephan11113 жыл бұрын

    Motorcycle & car racing was held on the roads of the park. A racing-based episode of either the Avengers or The Saint was filmed there.

  • @4077Disc
    @4077Disc3 жыл бұрын

    You’d need an army of ETAs to heat a building like that. Generalissimo ETA will begin the conquering soon.....

  • @pogthegrea

    @pogthegrea

    3 жыл бұрын

    His excellency ETA will conquer every wall outlet in the known universe

  • @ScottieD813

    @ScottieD813

    3 жыл бұрын

    He'll have an army of heating devices. Not only heaters but anything that conducts heat. Curlers, straighteners, hair dryers, etc. Theyll heat that room up so much that Simon will pass out. Then, they'll take over the video equipment and start posting videos on all of Simon's channels. The videos will be set up like an Anonymous video, ETA will in the forefront with his army behind him while he lays out his demands and commands for all the subscribers to take action on behalf of him. All of the sudden, there will be Fight-Club-style vandalism with the calling card being the Wilson face that's on the front of ETA so the authorities know exactly who's taking credit

  • @christophermerlot3366

    @christophermerlot3366

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ScottieD813 Maximum Overdrive 2020

  • @hkbabel

    @hkbabel

    3 жыл бұрын

    Only if you refer to him as EtA, he prefers. But why do I assume he's a He?

  • @4077Disc

    @4077Disc

    3 жыл бұрын

    Holly B Generalissima EtA? Generalissimx EtA?

  • @quasarsavage
    @quasarsavage3 жыл бұрын

    The Blaze cannot be contained! 🤣

  • @Ron4885
    @Ron48853 жыл бұрын

    That was good. Thanks

  • @markrix
    @markrix3 жыл бұрын

    great ep!! keep it ip

  • @markrix

    @markrix

    3 жыл бұрын

    up! even

  • @markkmiecik9797
    @markkmiecik97973 жыл бұрын

    They looked for Prince Albert while building it, but couldn't find him. It was later revealed that he had been in the can.

  • @-oiiio-3993

    @-oiiio-3993

    Жыл бұрын

    Let him out!

  • @carschmn
    @carschmn3 жыл бұрын

    Imagine talking to that glass dealer. “How large of glass panes can you make?” “49x10” “We’ll take 200,000”

  • @thedivide3688
    @thedivide36883 жыл бұрын

    Really enjoy your content. I gotta say too that your beard is amazing! I have beard envy LOL

  • @AreHan1991
    @AreHan1991 Жыл бұрын

    One of your best videos (among soo many good ones!). The Crystal Palace was an amazing project, especiallyfor its time

  • @Robert-zx7hj
    @Robert-zx7hj3 жыл бұрын

    I'm having beard envy. I think Simon's beard needs its own video.

  • @CC-zr6fp
    @CC-zr6fp3 жыл бұрын

    Also, highly recommend the tv show Victoria (the latest season as of this video) as one of the last few episodes of the season shows the planning and building of the Crystal Palace by Prince Albert

  • @lunagrace2872

    @lunagrace2872

    3 жыл бұрын

    Such an amazing episode! One of my favorites. 🥰

  • @Gorlim_the_Unhappy
    @Gorlim_the_Unhappy3 жыл бұрын

    Hey Simon! Love your work. Can you possibly do a geographics episode for the New Jersey pine barrens? Lots of good lore there.

  • @timmeyer9191
    @timmeyer91913 жыл бұрын

    Great video.

  • @KHurlbutt
    @KHurlbutt3 жыл бұрын

    Episode suggestion: "Rondon Commission" - the project to set up telegraph lines into the amazon. Cândido Rondon is a very interesting figure I'd like to learn more about.

  • @Snoozefor10minutes
    @Snoozefor10minutes3 жыл бұрын

    The glass house in lalbagh botanical garden in bangalore was inspired from this, built by British. Its not as massive as this is

  • @giovannirodriguesdasilva646

    @giovannirodriguesdasilva646

    3 жыл бұрын

    We have one in brazil too, in the city of Curitiba is a Botanical Garden, a classic tourist spot in the city, not nearly as big of course

  • @davidandrews7761
    @davidandrews77612 жыл бұрын

    Excellent!

  • @wollyxl
    @wollyxl3 жыл бұрын

    Birkenhead Park is in Birkenhead situated on the Wirral next to Liverpool

  • @oskar27971
    @oskar279713 жыл бұрын

    A suggestion, Chicago 1893 World’s Fair.

  • @hagerty1952
    @hagerty19523 жыл бұрын

    I love how you say "Empiaah". And, BTW, all empires were built on brutal suppression. People really don't want to be subjugated. BTW, I wish you'd clarified one thing. If the building was famously built of glass and iron, what, exactly, was burning?

  • @phantomechelon3628

    @phantomechelon3628

    Жыл бұрын

    Probably the exhibits. He said it started with an explosion in a cloakroom. Depending on what was in there, it could've got hot enough to melt even iron & glass.

  • @patricks_music
    @patricks_music2 жыл бұрын

    It’s amazing how many images and videos we have of things of the past

  • @thomashenry3230
    @thomashenry32303 жыл бұрын

    I live 5 minutes from the site of the site, its mental watching a video you made on something round the corner from my house

  • @anishadamane4179
    @anishadamane41793 жыл бұрын

    Simon you should do some research on ancient Indian temples you will be amazed by their structures

  • @TalesOfWar
    @TalesOfWar3 жыл бұрын

    Whenever I tell anybody in the world I'm from Manchester the first thing 90% of them ask is "City or United" and my answer is "neither, I don't care for football". So I totally get your struggle there haha.

  • @Dene181
    @Dene1813 жыл бұрын

    Watched the Victoria Episode with it yesterday and now this drops, that can't be a coincidence.

  • @itznotmytube
    @itznotmytube3 жыл бұрын

    This was the very first Simon Whistler video I ever watched, and for a few glorious months, this was the only channel I thought he had. Those were the days... allegendly :D

  • @LucasOliveira-tt2ll
    @LucasOliveira-tt2ll3 жыл бұрын

    the site of the crystal palace also saw some racing events back in the 50's and 60's

  • @highpath4776

    @highpath4776

    3 жыл бұрын

    I went once to a motobike racing weekend. The track became too small for the speeds being achieved by cars and bikes and places like Brands Hatch and Goodwood used instead.

  • @AL_THOMAS

    @AL_THOMAS

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@highpath4776 They still hold racing meets around a smaller track today with mostly timed sprint races and classic cars.

  • @Darryl_Frost
    @Darryl_Frost3 жыл бұрын

    I like how Ground News uses the electronics circuit symbol for electrical ground!! Makes an old techy happy...

  • @ground_news

    @ground_news

    3 жыл бұрын

    We chose the logo and name and as an ode to the engineering background of our team. Our CEO worked on the New Horizons mission and our CTO used to work in R&D in the healthcare space. Always good to remember where you came from!

  • @superdennisdt
    @superdennisdt2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this one its very local to me and nice to hear all the history about it ps i live near its last location

  • @kevinjessel8809
    @kevinjessel88093 жыл бұрын

    Oh hey wow, I did my senior thesis on the US Botanic Garden. The Botanic Garden was based on the Crystal Palace. There is an episode worth doing here. Also I can email a whole ton of research. Could also do Kew Garden as well.

  • @Joe-pj7wh
    @Joe-pj7wh3 жыл бұрын

    That beard seems to be growing extremely fast...

  • @jeffk464

    @jeffk464

    3 жыл бұрын

    starting to get annoying to look at

  • @Joe-pj7wh

    @Joe-pj7wh

    3 жыл бұрын

    @EmperorJuliusCaesar agreed.

  • @BarbadosBeerFestival

    @BarbadosBeerFestival

    3 жыл бұрын

    Allegedly.... lol

  • @EthelredHardrede-nz8yv

    @EthelredHardrede-nz8yv

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think he is fluffing it before shooting. He wants the ZZTop fans.

  • @markchip1

    @markchip1

    3 жыл бұрын

    I was thinking its style was somewhat "Romanov"...

  • @pickledbushman
    @pickledbushman3 жыл бұрын

    When you see these numbers for attendance, and theyre "big" numbers.... it kinda puts into perspective gamers who stream to 100k people at the same time. Give you an idea of how huge they are.

  • @little-wytch
    @little-wytch2 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting video, but thank you especially for this particular sponsor. I legit stopped the video to go check it out after your description and this is exactly what I needed to care about news again and care about staying informed. Thank you for rekindling a shred of my lost hope for this failing world.

  • @Wasserfeld.
    @Wasserfeld.3 жыл бұрын

    Living 10 mins walk away from Crystal Palace Park it's always weird walking around the grounds of the Palace. It's the closest thing we have to Roman ruins in South London lol. I do wish they spent some money on the grounds and made it much nicer. You can also walk along the old railway line through Sydenham Woods that closed as a result of the Palace burning down.

  • @keitadarkwolf2591
    @keitadarkwolf25913 жыл бұрын

    How about the Sagrada Familia? The cathedral more than 100 years in the making.

  • @christophermerlot3366

    @christophermerlot3366

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hell yeah. Have you been there? It's amazing.

  • @Claytone-Records

    @Claytone-Records

    3 жыл бұрын

    Gaudi.

  • @rockzs74r
    @rockzs74r3 жыл бұрын

    All I can think about Crystal Palace is a mediocre premier league team

  • @demonflowerchild

    @demonflowerchild

    3 жыл бұрын

    all i can think of is a cheap vodka

  • @mike04574

    @mike04574

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ashtaroth Solemn Hypnotic it’s the only league that’s not a farmers league eh

  • @mike04574

    @mike04574

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ashtaroth Solemn Hypnotic at least out of Europe’s top leagues

  • @FirelordRob76
    @FirelordRob763 жыл бұрын

    i could watch Simon talk about the construction of the Big Mac and be captivated. great work, my british friend.

  • @kimchipig
    @kimchipig3 жыл бұрын

    One can look back at the horrors of empire but did the UK at the time ever have engineers.Stephenson and Brunel were both extremely brilliant men, developing ways to put canals, and later railways are grade in any landscape, and then go out and build it. Brunel went on to build the largest ship in history and used it to lay the first transatlantic cable. We cannot forget Joseph Bazallgette, who was a master of huge projects like the London sewer system. In any of these massive projects, the project management was the most difficult part but these great men did it. Go to the UK, which is a living museum in many ways and one will see the work of these great engineers all over the country.

  • @--enyo--

    @--enyo--

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'd love to see the London Sewers as a Megaprojects video.

  • @user-xf6fj4vr1l
    @user-xf6fj4vr1l3 жыл бұрын

    Beard goals right there 😍🔥

  • @xaquko9718

    @xaquko9718

    3 жыл бұрын

    Moustache goals in your profile pic.

  • @user-xf6fj4vr1l

    @user-xf6fj4vr1l

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@xaquko9718 haha that ain't me in real life, but a moustache like it would be sweet as!

  • @ChadWilson
    @ChadWilson3 жыл бұрын

    MegaProject Idea: The Internet.

  • @j.a.weishaupt1748

    @j.a.weishaupt1748

    3 жыл бұрын

    Chad Wilson That’s not really a megaproject. Yes it’s enormous right now, but it never started out like that.

  • @ChadWilson

    @ChadWilson

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@j.a.weishaupt1748, because it is now may qualify it for Simon's attention. As an ongoing megaproject, it has had more influence on humanity that anything else, except maybe the wheel or the creation of the number zero.

  • @--enyo--

    @--enyo--

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, that would be interesting considering how vital it is to our lives today.

  • @abrahamwalton8244

    @abrahamwalton8244

    3 жыл бұрын

    How exactly would the internet be a megaproject? It didn't have to be built, it was simply something we discovered and built infrastructure around it, much like radio because radio waves have always existed, we just simply discovered them and learned how to harness them to our benefit. He could however do an extensive video on Apple & Microsoft since they share most of their origins. 🤷‍♂️ Or a comical video on the ever growing Disney Empire and how they own half of the world's media enterprise. 😱😭

  • @drewhuscher496
    @drewhuscher4963 жыл бұрын

    Something that would be helpful in these videos is the inclusion of a visible timeline with major talking points marked so we can follow along and guage the time gaps. Sometimes it's hard to follow with so much information being talked about.

  • @johnmurray8428
    @johnmurray84283 жыл бұрын

    My Mum grew up in Earlesfield South London and remembered the night Crystal Palace burnt down. She talked about the amazing glow in the sky. I went to the park in the 1960s. The local railway station is magnificent.