Crystal Palace’s radical gardeners | Brief letters John Claudius Loudon and Joseph Paxton | Fearful poetry | Train horror | Lost Consonants | Starmer’s new clothes It 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… |