books.google.com.au - Though it was never designed to accommodate musical performance, the Crystal Palace at Sydenham (which was opened in 1854 and was an enlarged rebuilding of the famous glass and iron structure first erected in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851) quickly established itself as the most important...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Musical_Life_of_the_Crystal_Palace.html?id=RkOxic097w4C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Musical Life of the Crystal Palace
