Sir John Frederick William Herschel, British astronomer city Steam boat Company the Crystal Palace was later

the Crystal Palace was later moved to Sydenham as part of an amusement park

18th October 1969

A strawberry seller in Covent Garden balancing a basket of strawberries on her head

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9 October 1909

Sir John Frederick William Herschel, British astronomer city Steam boat Company the Crystal Palace was laterSir John Frederick William Herschel, British astronomer, 1867. The son of Sir William Herschel, who discovered the planet Uranus, John Herschel (1792 1871) followed his father in astronomical research, mapping the sky of the southern hemisphere and cataloguing many previously unseen stars. He was also a pioneer photographer, and coined the photographic terms 'negative and 'positive'.