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A Firefighter on a Ladder Trying to Extinguish the Crystal Palace Fire, 1936. 'One night in 1936, London's Crystal Palace went up in flames. No-one knew how it started, and no-one knew how to stop it. But it was as though the Fates were giving a warning of all they held in store, by sending a monument to prosperous, complacent, Victorian Britain, crashing down in hellfire'. From "Time To Remember - The Time Of The Three Kings", 1936 ( Reel 4); documentary about events of the year of the abdication crisis.