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1852
 
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The Crystal Palace is dismantled in Hyde Park, to be re-erected south of the river Thames at Sydenham      
1856
 
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Victoria and Albert complete their fairy-tale castle at Balmoral, adding greatly to the nation's romantic view of Scotland       
Balmoral Castle
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1859
 
    
A 13-ton bell is installed above London's Houses of Parliament, soon giving its name (Big Ben) to both the clock and the clock-tower       
Big Ben nearing completion, chromolithograph 1858
Mary Evans Picture Library

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1863
 
     
British architect George Gilbert Scott designs a memorial for Prince Albert in Kensington Gardens        
Sculptural group, Albert Memorial
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1898
 
    
English town-planner Ebenezer Howard puts forward a Utopian scheme in Tomorrow a Peaceful Path to Real Reform       
1901
 
    
Charles Voysey completes a house for himself, The Orchard, at Chorley Wood in Hertfordshire       
1904
 
     
The publisher Walter Blackie moves into Hill House at Helensburgh, designed for him by Charles Rennie Mackintosh        
1910
 
   
The Liver Building, surmounted by two legendary Liver Birds, is completed in Liverpool      
Liver building, Liverpool
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1911
 
     
Robert Lorimer completes a chapel for the Knights of the Thistle in St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh        
1913
 
     
Construction begins on the government buildings in New Delhi, designed by Edwin Lutyens and Herbert 1Baker        
Edwin Lutyens, by Robert Lutyens, 1959
National Portrait Gallery, London

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