Palmhouse Website

This was not an original feature of André and Hornblower's plans but was a gift,  to the city, from Henry Yates Thompson, the grand-nephew of the founder of Princes Park. It was completed in 1896.

The Palm House is 100 feet wide and 82 feet high, consisting of an iron frame supporting a glass dome similar in style to The Crystal Palace in London.

It was pure magic to walk from the terraced houses of my childhood, through the park past, the Aviary and then climb the Palm House hill to actually see Oranges and Lemons ripening on the bushes with water cisterns below which gave home to myriad tiny tropical fish. They don't make jungles like that nowadays!

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