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The People's Palace

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Michael Rosen meets 83-year-old twin sisters Joyce and Eileen Cheek , and hears their memories of the world's firsttheme park. The Crystal Palace moved from Hyde
Park to Sydenham in southeast London 150 years ago.
It brought jobs, houses, a new railway line and, above all, a centre for entertainment, education and sport.
Three generations of Cheeks worked at the Palace and when it burned down in November 1936, it changed their livesforever. Producer Marya Burgess

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Michael Rosen
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Eileen Cheek
Producer:
Marya Burgess
Source: Radio Times

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