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Ideal for a sunny day. And for a cold rainy day: "There's no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing".
The park laid out around the Crystal Palace, with the terraces where it stood, the first dinosaur sculptures in the world beside the lake, a maze and half of south London below.
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When the Great Exhibition closed in 1851, Joseph Paxton's glass palace was taken down in Hyde Park and rebuilt, larger, on the ridge at Sydenham, and a pleasure ground was laid out around it with fountains that outdid Versailles, terraces, a maze and, around the lake, the first sculptures of dinosaurs ever made, modelled by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins in 1854 from what little was then known and wrong in ways that are half the pleasure. The palace burned on the night of 30 November 1936, watched by crowds from all over London, and only the terraces, the sphinxes and the great flights of steps remain, with the television transmitter of 1956 standing where the tower was. The park kept the rest: the dinosaurs, restored and protected at the highest historic grade, the maze replanted, the boating lake, the concert bowl, the National Sports Centre of 1964, and the view from the top terrace across south London to the North Downs. It is free and open all day.
Open daily from early morning until dusk
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