CRYSTAL PALACE DEBRIS
CIO,OOO AS SCRAP IRON HEAVY TASK OF REMOVAL LONDON, 1811 i August. All the scrap metal from the ruins of the Crystal Palace, estimated at between 10.000 and 15,000 tons, lias now been sold and is gradually being removed by lorry, although the last will pot have gone until Christmas. “Practically all the metal has beer? bought by steel manufacturers ol Sheffield. Manchester and Wolverhampton.” said Sir Henry Buckland, the general manager of the palace, “but 3500 ft of steel water piping untouched by the lire has been bought by a South African resident for installation in a private house, and has already been shipped to him.” The palace trustees have obtained about CIO,OOO from the sale of the scrap, and. with money from insurance and other sources, now control about T 200.000 in cash. The site is valued at about X 500.000 A conference is shortly to be held with the Government, at which the trustees will suggest, that part of the site should be incorporated in the national scheme for physical training.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 13 September 1937, Page 7
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