Comments on: CRYSTAL PALACE COULD RISE FROM THE ASHES WITHIN FIVE YEARS http://www.newsfromcrystalpalace.co.uk/crystal-palace-could-rise-from-the-ashes-within-five-years/ Thu, 17 Apr 2014 16:37:19 +0000 hourly 1 By: jerrygreen85 http://www.newsfromcrystalpalace.co.uk/crystal-palace-could-rise-from-the-ashes-within-five-years/#comment-6746 Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:01:41 +0000 http://www.newsfromcrystalpalace.co.uk/?p=827#comment-6746 Joe

Many thanks for your comment – would you like to expand on your argument for an article for News From Crystal Palace please?

I’m aware of your interest in the dinosaurs which brings me onto a second question. Wearing another hat I’m on the Norwood Society committee and wondered if you would be interested in giving a talk to the Society’s local history group about them?

If so, please could I pass your email address on to Alun and Barbara Thomas who run the group? We meet upstairs in the library on the third Thursday of every month excluding July and August.

Best Wishes

Jerry Green

]]> By: Prof Joe Cain http://www.newsfromcrystalpalace.co.uk/crystal-palace-could-rise-from-the-ashes-within-five-years/#comment-77 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 17:22:57 +0000 http://www.newsfromcrystalpalace.co.uk/?p=827#comment-77 There’s no discussion of the famous dinosaur statues, created in the 1850s by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, and still very much a part of the park. These are in dire need of conservation; they are Grade 1 listed, but falling apart. The only comments in this new plan about the dinosaurs were (1) the surrounding trail will get some lights, and (2) the interpretation centre will be rebuilt. So, we’ll have a well-lit trail around a crumbling pile of former sculptures and an interpretation centre celebrating what used to be there. Act now. Invest in conservation. Require £5million to English Heritage for long term management of the statues as part of this sell-off of a London park.

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