3-021-143 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Fireworks at the Crystal Palace, 1869. 'The festivities at the Crystal Palace [in south London] on Monday week were concluded, at half-past nine in the evening, by a grand display of fireworks. Among the chief features of this entertainment were the newly-invented Fire Cascade, presenting a vast surface of brilliant flame poured from a height of 120ft., which was surmounted by a beautiful silvery curtain; the Golden Birch-Tree, the Ram with the Golden Fleece, the Spiral Star of Gold, the Sister Magnesium Balloons, and other splendid apparitions. The whole exhibition, which finished with a battery of 2000 shells and rockets, was provided by Messrs. Brock and Co., of Nunhead, pyrotechnists to the Crystal Palace Company'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.