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Alexandra Palace is an entertainment and sports venue in North London, situated between Wood Green and Muswell Hill in the London Borough of Haringey. A Grade II listed building, [ 2 ] it is built on the site of Tottenham Wood and the later Tottenham Wood Farm. [ 3 ]
Alexandra Palace was awarded major grants from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Haringey Council for the East Wing Restoration Project, including the theatre, which was the biggest investment in the palace for a generation. [23] [26] Additional funds came from charitable trusts, businesses and individual donations.
Alexandra Palace is a closed railway station in the grounds of Alexandra Palace in the Muswell Hill area of north London. It is one of a number of stations to have held the name at various times and should not be confused with the current Alexandra Palace station which is on the East Coast Main Line to the east of the closed station.
The Alexandra Palace television station in North London (grid reference) is the oldest television transmission site in the world. What was at the time called "high definition", ( 405-line ) the world's first TV broadcasts on VHF were beamed from this mast from 1936 until the outbreak of World War II .
The Alexandra Park and Palace (Public Purposes) Act 1900 (63 & 64 Vict. c. cclix) changed the status of the park from private ownership to a public trust. The first company was set up in the 1850s to build an educational, recreation and events venue to rival south London's Crystal Palace which took the main structure of the Great Exhibition, 1851 from Hyde Park, London.
This stunning estate is the world's longest-occupied palace in the world, housing 40 British monarchs over nearly 1,000 years, while also serving as a prison during the Civil War in the mid-17th ...
A Class 313 at Alexandra Palace on its way to Stevenage via Hertford. All services at Alexandra Palace are operated by Great Northern using Class 387 and 717 EMUs. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: [9] 2 tph to London King's Cross (calls at Finsbury Park only) 4 tph to Moorgate (all stations) 2 tph to Stevenage via Hertford North
George V made it into a modern royal residence. The palace was fitted with central heating, new bathrooms, and an elevator during the King's reign in the early 20th century.