Open House Festival

Crystal Palace Park Dinosaurs – a tour with a London Blue Badge Tourist Guide

walk/tour

Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, 1853

Crystal Palace Overground station, Crystal Palace Overground station

Explore the world's first dinosaur models hidden in a south London park. The 30 Grade I listed, life-size statues of dinosaurs and other extinct animals at Crystal Palace Park have thrilled visitors for 166 years. Tour is kids friendly.

Getting there

Train

Crystal Palace, Penge West, Penge East

Bus

249

Additional travel info

Meeting point is Crystal Palace Overground/National Rail station

Access

Facilities

About

Longer description

Explore the world's first dinosaur models hidden in a south London park. The 30 Grade I listed, life-size statues of dinosaurs and other extinct animals at Crystal Palace Park that have thrilled visitors for 166 years. However, they are now in danger and have recently been added to Historic England’s Heritage at Risk Register.

Led by Aaron Hunter who is an academic and palaeontologist.

Nearby

Drop in

Crystal Palace Park Trust - Garden Party

public realm/landscape

On Sunday 17th September, we celebrate the historic takeover of Crystal Palace Park by the charitable, community-led Crystal Palace Park Trust. Join us for the Garden Party: a free festival of music, markets, makers and merriment!

Joseph Paxton, 1854

Walking tour

Crystal Palace Subway – A Conservation Journey

civic

A self-guided tour through the active conservation and restoration project revitalising the Crystal Palace Victorian Subway

Drop in / Guided tour

Central Hill Estate

housing, walk/tour, community/cultural

Tree-lined housing estate on the ridge of Central Hill & Crystal Palace, incorporating open spaces, views over London, gardens and sense of community. Rosemary Stjernstedt Ted Hollamby Adrian Sansom, Lambeth Borough Architects 1963.

Roger Westman, Brian Roberts, Frank de Marco, Adrian Sansom, Ted Hollamby, Rosemary Stjernstedt, 1963

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St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood

religious

St John's is a Grade II* listed church, designed by John Loughborough Pearson

John Loughborough Pearson, 1887

Drop in

Kitchen in the Woods

residence

Winner of the Urban Oasis awards of Don't Move Improve 2023! with an extension by A Small Studio architects. This is an Austin Vernon & Partners 1957 home that sits within the Dulwich Estate.

A Small Studio , 1958

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