Sunday, July 16, 2006

Land of the Lost

Saturday we went out to Crystal Palace park - the site of the great crystal palace in of the exhibition of 18XX. We'd been talking about going down there for some time, but finally just decided to go on a whim yesterday.

Crystal Palace wasn't exactly what I espected. The palace burnt down back in the 30s, its former site is some kind of desolate wasteland - Ozymandias like. The rest of the park is a bit disappointing, too but one thing remains of that great festival of education, commerce and culture: the dinosaur park.

There is a collection of great concrete dinosaurs - based on the fossils found around that time (and predating Darwin's origin of the species). The scientists who constructed the dino models were quite revolutionary - but they didn't get everything exactly right. But it's still pretty cool.

I'm quite tired from today's adventures - so perhaps I'll update with more detail later - meantime, here are some pictures:


Land of the Lost - Crystal Palace, South East London

Land of the Lost - Crystal Palace, South East London

Land of the Lost - Crystal Palace, South East London

And here's a bonus Ice Age mammal:

Land of the Lost - Crystal Palace, South East London

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