Inside Alexandra Palace Theatre

Wooden rafters inside Alexandra Palace Theatre 1992

A look at the progress of the restoration, seen during a recent visit to the theatre for a group of Theatre Friends. Another milestone The Theatre regeneration project reaches another …

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Lost Theatres of Haringey

lost theatres of haringey book cover

By Marlene McAndrew

Lost Theatres of Haringey tells the stories of six of Haringey’s long vanished theatres once located in Highgate, the Alexandra Palace, Crouch End, Tottenham and Wood Green.

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New Entrance to the Palace

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Bowes Park Weekly News, 26 May 1906

An Advantage to Muswell Hill

For many months there has been an agitation for an entrance to the Alexandra Palace and Park from the top of Muswell Hill, and we are now informed on quite reliable authority that such an entrance is about to be opened.

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Palace on the Hill

palace on the hill book cover

By Ken Gay

With a unique collection of photographs, this book tells the true story of the “People’s Palace”, as well as the facts and the legends from its origins on rural Muswell Hill to the present time.

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Persuasion at the Alexandra Palace Theatre

Alexandra Palace

A new adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion is running at the Alexandra Palace Theatre until 30th April. It’s adapted by Jeff James, with James Yeatman, and directed by Jeff James.  Switching …

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Rails to the People’s Palace

Rails to the people's Palace book cover

By Reg Davies

Rails to the People’s Palace is a revised and updated edition of this popular book by railway enthusiast Reg Davies which tells the story of the railway line which once ran between Finsbury Park and the Alexandra Palace from 1873 to 1954.

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Reflections on Tottenham Wood

View of Alexandra Palace

During the coronavirus lockdown and the fine weather that accompanied it I took the opportunity to sit on my terrace in the New River Village to focus on the view of Alexandra Palace …

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Restoration by Keith Armstrong

Title page Restoration by Keith Armstrong

To coincide with the reopening of the Alexandra Palace Theatre, Keith Armstrong’s book Restoration: Alexandra Palace The East Wing  is published on Monday 3rd December. From the publisher “The book …

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