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A proposal for the conversion of the Great Exhibition building into a 1,000ft high tower with almost 50 floors, including a 44ft diameter clock, to commemorate the 'great event of the year 1851'. One of the proposers, Charles Burton, wrote; 'there was never so favourable an opportunity of erecting so gigantic a tower at so comparatively trifling a cost'. This was the most ambitious of several proposals for reusing the exhibition building, which was eventually remodelled to form the Crystal Palace at Sydenham. Engraved by C.D.Laing after a drawing by Charles Burton.

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Collection:
Image type:	Engraving
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Ref:	07134
Identifier:	Bldr Vol.10
Date:	1852