PP.34:
CRYSTAL PALACE PARADE - MAY 2005
Remnants
of the Hoardings
Crystal
Palace Parade which once as "The Palace Road" formed a
magnificent boulevard alongside the Transept entrances of
the Crystal Palace, now has a rather run-down look to it
from the over-crowded bus station at one end to the
fenced-in zones at the other end. The magnificent wall near
the underground tunnel is, for the moment, graffiti free.
But the gradually rotting remnants of the hoardings which
once ran along most of the top site are starting to
collapse. Flytipping, fortuntely on a relatively small
scale, threatens to spill onto the pavement. Attention is
usually focussed on the Park itself, but this simple picture
survey, taken on a greyish evening in May, shows how the
Parade has been allowed to decay.
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