Alexandra Palace
Alexandra Palace in Muswell Hill, North London is impressive in its re-built Victorian vastness...the history of the Palace is no less impressive.
Because it sits atop a hill, Alexandra Palace can be seen from various places in North London.
It sometimes seem to pop into conscious view out of nowhere...you look up and it's suddenly there, leaving you puzzled as to why you've never noticed it before...it's beauty and its vastness is often missed...it just seems not to have registered its presence until its acknowledged...
Once Alexandra Palace has been pointed out to you, it becomes unforgettable...you will find yourself instinctively searching for it...looking up searchingly from trains, parks, in between gaps in houses on streets, on street corners...each time, once you've spotted it, stopping anew, to take in its commanding position on the hill, its vastness, its beauty...
And then your learn its amazing history...and once again you're dumbfounded...
Seeing Alexandra Palace and Alexandra Palace Park never cease (for me...) to be a source of excitement, wonder and amazement at its size, stunning architecture, brickwork, interior, interior plasterwork and murals.
This lens is a pointer to some of what Alexandra Palace offers individuals (for leisure and lifestyle options), SME and large organizations (for exhibitions and corporate events).
Alexandra Palace Park
Alexandra Palace Park is a public open space, over 196 acres of open parkland, consisting of trees, gardens, wildlife, deer enclosure to a small herd of deer, ponds and nature reserve...
More than 100 species of birds have been identified within Alexandra Park...
Alexandra Palace is surrounded by Alexandra Palace Park.
Alexandra Palace is now used as an exhibition, event and function venue...capable of hosting huge and small exhibitions, events and functions such as a wedding reception.
As a venue, Alexandra Palace is flexible and adaptable - as well as being able to host huge exhibitions and events, it is also capable of hosting small, intimate functions and corporate meetings in it's less bigger rooms...
For example, the aesthetically mural, elegant Londesborough Room was turned into a tea room for the Tetley sponsored Alexandra Palace 2008 Knitting and Stitching Show. A giant round tea bag was displayed outside the Londesborough Room to complete Tetley's centenary birthday celebration.
As part of the 2009 Open House London, the BBC studio at Alexandra Palace was opened (on the Saturday only) to the public for the first time - the Londesborough Room was used to show an archive screening of the BBC transmitter and the work involved for the first BBC high-definition television transmission.
Because it sits atop a hill, Alexandra Palace can be seen from various places in North London.
It sometimes seem to pop into conscious view out of nowhere...you look up and it's suddenly there, leaving you puzzled as to why you've never noticed it before...it's beauty and its vastness is often missed...it just seems not to have registered its presence until its acknowledged...
Once Alexandra Palace has been pointed out to you, it becomes unforgettable...you will find yourself instinctively searching for it...looking up searchingly from trains, parks, in between gaps in houses on streets, on street corners...each time, once you've spotted it, stopping anew, to take in its commanding position on the hill, its vastness, its beauty...
And then your learn its amazing history...and once again you're dumbfounded...
Seeing Alexandra Palace and Alexandra Palace Park never cease (for me...) to be a source of excitement, wonder and amazement at its size, stunning architecture, brickwork, interior, interior plasterwork and murals.
This lens is a pointer to some of what Alexandra Palace offers individuals (for leisure and lifestyle options), SME and large organizations (for exhibitions and corporate events).
Alexandra Palace Park
Alexandra Palace Park is a public open space, over 196 acres of open parkland, consisting of trees, gardens, wildlife, deer enclosure to a small herd of deer, ponds and nature reserve...
More than 100 species of birds have been identified within Alexandra Park...
Alexandra Palace is surrounded by Alexandra Palace Park.
Alexandra Palace is now used as an exhibition, event and function venue...capable of hosting huge and small exhibitions, events and functions such as a wedding reception.
As a venue, Alexandra Palace is flexible and adaptable - as well as being able to host huge exhibitions and events, it is also capable of hosting small, intimate functions and corporate meetings in it's less bigger rooms...
For example, the aesthetically mural, elegant Londesborough Room was turned into a tea room for the Tetley sponsored Alexandra Palace 2008 Knitting and Stitching Show. A giant round tea bag was displayed outside the Londesborough Room to complete Tetley's centenary birthday celebration.
As part of the 2009 Open House London, the BBC studio at Alexandra Palace was opened (on the Saturday only) to the public for the first time - the Londesborough Room was used to show an archive screening of the BBC transmitter and the work involved for the first BBC high-definition television transmission.
The Palace on the Hill
Ally Pally - the People's Palace
Alexandra Palace is sometimes referred to as:
Alexandra Palace is no monster...vast, yes...and no doubt costly to run and maintain...but the vastness is majestically Victorian with a panoramic view over London rooftops and skyline...
However, it is the unashamedly stunning elegant interior of Alexandra Palace that takes one's breath away...
Exhibitions and events are held in The Great Room, the Panorama Room and/or the West Hall.
Conveniently there are various eating places within the Palace and Park including a a pub, the Phoenix.
Muswell Hill and Muswell Hill Broadway with its many restaurants, food stores, clothes and accessories stores, tea rooms and pubs are within walking distance - a de-stress, visually enticing leisurely stroll through Alexandra Park (but not when it is dark or at nightfall - to state the obvious...)
- The Palace on the Hill
- The Palace in the North (to differentiate it from Crystal Palace in South London, the Palace in the South)
- Locally, Alexandra Palace is referred to as Ally Pally
- Author J.B Priestley (1894 - 1984) allegedly referred to Alexandra Palace as the "monster of Muswell Hill"
Alexandra Palace is no monster...vast, yes...and no doubt costly to run and maintain...but the vastness is majestically Victorian with a panoramic view over London rooftops and skyline...
However, it is the unashamedly stunning elegant interior of Alexandra Palace that takes one's breath away...
Exhibitions and events are held in The Great Room, the Panorama Room and/or the West Hall.
Conveniently there are various eating places within the Palace and Park including a a pub, the Phoenix.
Muswell Hill and Muswell Hill Broadway with its many restaurants, food stores, clothes and accessories stores, tea rooms and pubs are within walking distance - a de-stress, visually enticing leisurely stroll through Alexandra Park (but not when it is dark or at nightfall - to state the obvious...)
Alexandra Palace - The Great Hall
The Great Hall
The Great Hall with its Rose window is the venue of choice for huge exhibitions, conferences, corporate events, concerts and promotional videos films - a Fiat Grande Punto advert was shoot in Alexandra Palace Great Hall.Annual popular exhibitions include :
- London's Premier Antiques, 20th Century, Collectors and Art Deco Fair
- The Knitting and Stitching Show
- Asian Wedding Exhibition
- The World's Dart Championship
The "Freestyle Festival" will introduce skateboarders, roller skaters, bmx bikers, inliners, freerunners and freerunning to Alexandra Palace Great Hall and to the whole of Alexandra Palace and Park.
The Willis Concert Organ
The Great Hall also houses the Willis Concert Organ.
The Will Concert Organ was designed and build for Alexandra Palace Great Hall by Henry Willis (also known as Father Willis) in 1875. Henry Willis is said to be the greatest Victorian Organ builder. The Alexandra Palace Willis Concert Organ was described as the finest concert pipe organ in Europe.
Alexandra Palace Willis Concert Organ is the only organ pipe in the world that was build and is being rebuilt and maintained by Henry Willis and Sons
Exhibition and Events at Alexandra Palace
Exhibitions, concerts, festivals
Exhibitions, events, festivals - Leisure and lifestyle choices...
PDC World Championship Darts
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Vogue Knitting: The Ultimate Knitting Book
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The Parkour and Freerunning Handbook
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Freerunning: Find Your Way
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DC Video - Deluxe Edition
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Alexandra Palace - Photographs and Videos
Architecture, exhibitions and events
London's best and coming exhibitions and events venue - for leisure and lifestyle choices
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Alexandra Palace Ice Rink
The Palace Ice Rink
Thursday, 12th November 2009: I watched 252 people set a new Guinness World Record for the longest "Conga on Ice" today at Alexandra Palace Ice Rink.A fun morning.
"Oz on Ice" (based on the Wizard of Oz) will be the "Christmas 2009 on ice show" at Alexandra Palace Ice Rink.
In a true show of community spirit, schoolchildren, students, mums, dads and Alexandra Palace staff "danced and shimmied on the rink" as they conga to break the world record for "Conga on Ice".
The conga was "led by Managing Director Rebecca Kane and celebrities Kyran Bracken and Clare Buckfield". Fancy dress outfits were worn by some skaters, including those worn by characters from Oz on Ice - the Alexandra Palace Ice Rink pantomime in December.
Bringing sports to Alexandra Palace
darts, skateboarding, freerunning
Alexandra Palace is developing into a sports venue. It has played host to the World Darts Championship for the past four years with new contract recently signed for the exhibition and event.
The Freestyle Festival will introduce:
- skateboarding and skateboarders
- bmx bikes and bmxers
- freefunning and freerunners
to Alexandra Palace and Park, Muswell Hill
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Getting to London, Alexandra Palace
Alexandra Palace and Park, Muswell Hill, London
By International or National flight
Nearest internainttional/national airports in London, UK:
- Heathrow Airport
- Gatwick Airport
- Stansted Airport
- Luton Airport
- London City Airport
National Rail network
By Rail to Alexandra Palace
Alexandra Palace Railway station: a few minutes walk to Alexandra Palace Park and Alexandra Palace.
Alexandra Palace Railway station is about 15 - 30 minutes to/from London King's Cross; about 8 - 15 minutes to/from Finsbury Park Rail station.
Train Operator : First Capital Connect
By Underground to Alexandra Palace
From Wood Green (Piccadilly Line, zone 3 ), the nearest Underground Tube station to Alexandra Palace:
- bus route W3 or bus route 184. The bus stop for both buses is in Station Road, across the road from Wood Green Underground Tube station. Both buses will stop at Alexandra Palace Palm Court Entrance.
Bus journey: 10 - 15 minutes.
Bus route W3 is probably the quickest...once it leaves Station Road (the road leading from the Wood Green bus stop to Alexandra Palace Station, it does a U-turn onto Alexandra Park Road (the road leading into Alexandra Palace Park).
Once in Alexandra Palace Road, you might as well enjoy the remaining bus ride journey to the Alexandra Palace, Palm Court Entrance.
Once you get off the bus, you would need to cross the road and walk up the steps to the Palm Court Entrance. - Bus route 184 however takes a slightly more convoluted route to Alexandra Palace, Palm Court Entrance.
You may find it quicker to get off the bus at the Alexandra Palace Railway station and walk across the station's footbridge...
Alexandra Palace Park is on the immediate left hand side - it's a bit of a hill to Alexandra Palace from the Park... the view is worth the uphill walk. - From Finsbury Park bus station, bus route W3 (travelling in the opposite direction) - a 15 - 20 minutes journey, will take you to Alexandra Palace Palm Court Entrance, you just need to cross a small minor lane road and walk up the steps to the Palm Court entrance.
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