{"id":147098,"date":"2024-09-18T23:44:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T16:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/crystal-palaces-radical-gardeners-brief-letters\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T09:49:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T02:49:56","slug":"crystal-palaces-radical-gardeners-brief-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/crystal-palaces-radical-gardeners-brief-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Palace\u2019s radical gardeners | Brief letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nJohn Claudius Loudon and Joseph Paxton | Fearful poetry | Train horror | Lost Consonants | Starmer\u2019s new clothesIt was not just standard nuts and bolts that made the Crystal Palace possible (Solved: the mystery of how Victorians built Crystal Palace in just 190 days, 16 September). The whole building was built from interchangeable parts, many prefabricated, by methods designed not by engineers but by two gardeners, John Claudius Loudon and Joseph Paxton (the architect of the Palace), and perfected in the construction of greenhouses. It is just one example of how the technology of gardening has changed all our lives. Roderick FloudAuthor, An Economic History of the\u00a0English Garden\u2022 Kurt Schwitters (The Cumbrian barn-stormer: is Kurt Schwitters\u2019 last masterpiece finally about to be restored?, 16 September) was instrumental in saving George Melly from grievous bodily harm in the early 50s. According to Melly, he was confronted by three young thugs late at night and managed to repel them by reciting Schwitters\u2019 poem Ursonate. The fearful nonsense he uttered soon sent them beating a hasty retreat.Phil Rhoden Low Habberley, Worcestershire Continue reading…
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