 Crystal Palace is a great place for a daytrip as it has a large park with victorian life size fibreglass dinosaurs! This is where the original "Crystal Palace" was housed until it burnt down.For some beautiful pictures of the park take a look at this bbc site .http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/in_pictures/360_degree/crystal_palace/index.shtml Now there is a national sports centre there with an olympic sized swimming pool. There are also plenty of cafes, pubs and restaurants in the "triangle" - the one way system which is also the main three streets of village-like Crystal Palace . It is also a growing centre for lovers of vintage and other shopping pleasures . The Alma Garden Market is every Saturday from 10 am, Bambinos on Church Rd for furniture and old goodies, also on Jasper rd the collectors furniture warehouse, as well as the boutique type shops Glitter and Twisted on Westow Street (looking straight down the hill at us !), Vintage Hart (in the White Hart Pub opposite the Alma).amongst others! You cannot fail to find something up here..... |
  Directions: The closest train station is Crystal Palace which has regular services from Victoria or London Bridge then you walk up the hill where the main street begins...... If you are a bus person , you are also in luck as crystal palace has a big bus station. Busses from Brixton (which is the nearest tube) are 432 or 3 , 417 comes from Streatham, 249 from Balham, 227 from Beckenham, 157 from Croydon, 363 from Elephant and Castle or Peckham. The number 3 comes all the way from Oxford Circus, through Trafalgar Square and Kennington. Sainsburys has a reliable car park .  |