Richard’s second tour of Crystal Palace explores the Triangle and the streets around. He tells the story of the area’s social development emerging from an historic wood (which is remembered in street and pub names) becoming a fashionable cultural and shopping district (even before the exhibition site arrived) with sweeping views.

Richard shows the site of a lost grand Victorian railway station, old boundary marker and course of a lost river. We see some of the photographic record in situ of a great nineteenth century French writer and homes of a great French artist and English movie star. We discover curious shops, pubs and churches both past and present and a massive orphanage which Dickens praised.

This tour involves a few steep but short hills. Also, the tour does not take in the Crystal Palace exhibition site. Come to the Crystal Palace Museum to learn about that.