Hello! I'm Liam Hafey, and
I've recently moved from Sydney Australia to London England, with my
mother, father, big sister Eilis and little brother Maitias. So
far I've been having a really good time - particularly because I'm
going to school! In Australia I would have had to wait a whole
year before I was able to start, but here in England I'm EXACTLY the
right age to start Reception!
I've been lots of places with my family since we've been over here, but the one I enjoyed most of all was seeing the dinosaurs at Crystal Palace Park. It took us a few buses (it should have only been two, but Mummy made us get off too early) to get there from our house, but we had a lovely lunch at the Park Cafe, and then went on the "Prehistory Trail". Here's some of the photos Mummy took while we were there:
This is the Bromley
Milennium Rock. Eilis isn't asleep, she's just pretending to be a
rock. I was supposed to be a rock as well, but hey, I love the
camera and the camera loves me!
This is a giant sloth. Well, it's not really, it's actually a concrete model of a giant sloth...
Here's
some miscellaneous
"dinosaurs". There's a "pterodactyl" at the top of the
photo! It doesn't really look at all like a pterodactyl, does it?
Here's a larger
image of the "pterodactyl". See what I mean? Looks nothing
like it should!
The world's first "dinosaur park" was opened in 1854. Sir Joseph Paxton, who constructed Crystal Palace Park, collaborated with a team of eminent and visionary men to incorporate within its layout the world's first prehistoric sculptures.
This included the
renowned Victorian scientist and Professor of Anatomy Richard Owen, who
first termed the phrase Dinosauria meaning 'Terrible Lizards'.
The sculptor Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins worked with Paxton and Owen, among others, to create the dinosaurs known at that time.
The display and landscape area depicted a journey through prehistoric time. There were life-size dinosaur statues together with other prehistoric reptiles and mammals, and examples of geology.
There's a lot more to the park, but we were only there to see the dinosaurs. We are definitely going to go there another day, because there's a lot of remains from the Crystal Palace (built for the Great Exhibition of 1851, but burnt down in 1936) which would be really nice to see as well.
I hope you liked my webpage! Come back and have a look every now and again, to see where else we've gone!
I've been lots of places with my family since we've been over here, but the one I enjoyed most of all was seeing the dinosaurs at Crystal Palace Park. It took us a few buses (it should have only been two, but Mummy made us get off too early) to get there from our house, but we had a lovely lunch at the Park Cafe, and then went on the "Prehistory Trail". Here's some of the photos Mummy took while we were there:
This is the Bromley
Milennium Rock. Eilis isn't asleep, she's just pretending to be a
rock. I was supposed to be a rock as well, but hey, I love the
camera and the camera loves me!This is a giant sloth. Well, it's not really, it's actually a concrete model of a giant sloth...
Here's
some miscellaneous
"dinosaurs". There's a "pterodactyl" at the top of the
photo! It doesn't really look at all like a pterodactyl, does it?Here's a larger
image of the "pterodactyl". See what I mean? Looks nothing
like it should!The world's first "dinosaur park" was opened in 1854. Sir Joseph Paxton, who constructed Crystal Palace Park, collaborated with a team of eminent and visionary men to incorporate within its layout the world's first prehistoric sculptures.
This included the
renowned Victorian scientist and Professor of Anatomy Richard Owen, who
first termed the phrase Dinosauria meaning 'Terrible Lizards'. The sculptor Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins worked with Paxton and Owen, among others, to create the dinosaurs known at that time.
The display and landscape area depicted a journey through prehistoric time. There were life-size dinosaur statues together with other prehistoric reptiles and mammals, and examples of geology.
There's a lot more to the park, but we were only there to see the dinosaurs. We are definitely going to go there another day, because there's a lot of remains from the Crystal Palace (built for the Great Exhibition of 1851, but burnt down in 1936) which would be really nice to see as well.
I hope you liked my webpage! Come back and have a look every now and again, to see where else we've gone!