Tell Me Something I Don't Know!

[Littlesue]

Build in 1950 The original Crystal Palace was the 1st building put together using Whitworth Screw Theaded bolts (or any bolts for that matter)
Made out of Cast Iron and Glass it was nearly a 1/3 of a mile long and was completed in 190 days
Burnt down in 1936...which allegedly was a bit suss at the time...
@Alan Whittle
Dont ask me why but somehow Mrs degsy has this 100yr old tea pot in the back of a cupboard
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The Crystal Palace building has a local connection for me . All the glass was made and provided by Chances Glass in Smethwick

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

1 in 18 people have a third nipple (polythelia). This means approximately 2,100 people at GP today have three nipples.

Triple nipple as we knew her.....honestly

 

[Alan Whittle]

Fat finger syndrome

You typed that with a chair leg I reckon.

 

[JLW]

1 in 18 people have a third nipple (polythelia). This means approximately 2,100 people at GP today have three nipples.

Im one of them

 

[chrismpw]

Build in 1950 The original Crystal Palace was the 1st building put together using Whitworth Screw Theaded bolts (or any bolts for that matter)
Made out of Cast Iron and Glass it was nearly a 1/3 of a mile long and was completed in 190 days
Burnt down in 1936...which allegedly was a bit suss at the time...
@Alan Whittle
Dont ask me why but somehow Mrs degsy has this 100yr old tea pot in the back of a cupboard
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Still to this day i cannot fathom how a building made of glass and iron can burn down!

 

[marnie]

Well I for one didn't know about this place outside Goodison.

 

[degsy]

Still to this day i cannot fathom how a building made of glass and iron can burn down!

Obviously somebody left multiple copies of the Insurance policy lying around and that pesky paper just spontaneously combusted

 

[Alan Whittle]

Still to this day i cannot fathom how a building made of glass and iron can burn down!

The iron buckles and the glass falls out. Didn’t you teach physics????

 

[chrismpw]

The iron buckles and the glass falls out. Didn’t you teach physics????

Well yes ... so there was flammable stuff inside eh?

 

[Alan Whittle]

Well yes ... so there was flammable stuff inside eh?

Ah! I see your point. Yes, I believe the elephants ignited.

 

[goldfinchmule]

Spike Milligan said him and his dad were watching the crystal palace fire through binoculars from their house when his dad turned to him and said....navajo.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Ah! I see your point. Yes, I believe the elephants ignited.

pink ones right?

 

[Goodison87]

1 in 18 people have a third nipple (polythelia). This means approximately 2,100 people at GP today have three nipples.

Never seen Total Recall ?