Hornsey and Wood Green (UK Parliament constituency)

The 2012 Holland Heineken House was the Dutch meeting place for supporters, athletes and other followers during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, organized by Heineken and NOC*NSF. It was the 11th edition of the Holland Heineken House since 1982. The 2012 House opened its doors on the day of the opening ceremony on 27 July 2012 and closed on the day of the closing ceremony, 12 August 2012. Due to the expected numbers of visitors, tickets were sold in advance. With about six thousand visitors per day, over hundred thousand visitors the venue during the Games.

The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream was a concert held in the Great Hall of the Alexandra Palace, London, on 29 April 1967. The fund-raising concert for the counterculture paper International Times was organised by Barry Miles, John "Hoppy" Hopkins, David Howson, Mike McInnerney and Jack Henry Moore. It was part-documented by Peter Whitehead in a film called Tonite Let's All Make Love in London.

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 former station was the terminus of a short branch line from Highgate. The preceding station on the branch was Muswell Hill. The station was located immediately adjacent to the north side of the Palace buildings. Nothing remains of the tracks or island platform today, which have been removed and covered by a car park, but the small station building remains and is in use as a community centre.

Alexandra Palace is a Grade II listed entertainment and sports venue in London, situated between Wood Green and Muswell Hill in the London Borough of Haringey. It is built on the site of Tottenham Wood and the later Tottenham Wood Farm. Originally built by John Johnson and Alfred Meeson, it opened in 1873 but following a fire two weeks after its opening, was rebuilt by Johnson. Intended as "The People's Palace" and referred to as "Ally Pally", its purpose was to serve as a public centre of recreation, education and entertainment; North London's counterpart to the Crystal Palace in South London.At first a private venture, in 1900, the owners planned to sell it and Alexandra Park for development. A group of neighbouring local authorities managed to acquire it. An Act of Parliament created the Alexandra Palace and Park Trust. The Act required the trustees to maintain the building and park and make them available for the free use and recreation of the public forever. The present trustee is the London Borough of Haringey, whose coat of arms shows lightning bolts depicting Alexandra Palace's pioneering role in the development of television. In 1935, the trustees leased part of the palace to the BBC for use as the production and transmission centre for their new television service. In 1936, it became the home of the BBC's first regular public television service. The broadcasting system was the 405-line monochrome analogue television – the first fully electronic television system to be used in regular broadcasting. Although other facilities soon superseded it after the war, Alexandra Palace continued to be used by the BBC for many years and its radio and television mast is still in use. The original studios 'A' and 'B' still survive in the southeast wing with their producers' galleries and are used for exhibiting original historical television equipment. The original Victorian theatre with its stage machinery also survives and as of 2019, is back in use. The theatre and stage structure is on English Heritage's Buildings at Risk register. Alexandra Palace became a listed building in 1996, at the instigation of the Hornsey Historical Society. A planned commercial development of the building into a mixed leisure complex including a hotel, replacement ice-skating rink, cinema, ten-pin bowling alley and exhibition centre, encountered opposition from public groups and was blocked by the High Court in 2007. The Great Hall and West Hall are typically used for exhibitions, music concerts, and conferences, operated by the trading arm of the charitable trust that owns the building and park on behalf of the public. There is also a pub, ice rink, palm court, and a panoramic view of central London. In 2013, Alexandra Park was declared a local nature reserve and is also a Site of Borough Importance for Nature Conservation, Grade 1.The nearest railway stations are the Alexandra Palace with Great Northern services from Moorgate and London Underground station Wood Green on the Piccadilly line. Alexandra Palace is also served by London Buses route W3.

Stamp World London 90 was an international stamp exhibition held 3-13 May 1990 at the Alexandra Palace, London.1990 was also the 150th anniversary of the introduction of the Uniform Penny Post and the Penny Black and a number of stamps and exhibition souvenirs were produced in that connection.

The 2014 World Championship of Ping Pong was a table tennis tournament.

The Alexandra Palace Theatre was originally built in 1873 for the performance of opera and ballet, but within a few weeks was burnt to the ground with the rest of the Alexandra Palace. The Palace, including the theatre, was rebuilt and reopened in 1875 and is now a Grade II listed building. The new theatre included a 22 foot cellar below the stage which housed complex machinery for use in scene changes and movement of actors. The theatre fell into disrepair for many years but was reopened in 2018 after refurbishment in the style of 'arrested decay'. The stage machinery is one of the few surviving examples in the country. The co-architects of the 1975 Place were John Johnson and Alfred Meeson. They worked with an expert in stage machinery called Thomas Walford Grieve, son of Thomas Grieve, who designed sets for many London theatres during the 19th century. The stage machinery, housed 22 feet below the stage, included many different mechanisms to enable scene changes, lower actors through the stage floor (traps) and to enable actors to 'fly' over the stage. According to articles in The Era and The Hornsey journals, the theatre could hold around 3,000 people and the stage could hold hundreds. It had a floor area which was about the same as that of the London Drury Lane Theatre, but whereas the area of the Drury Lane stage is about half that of the whole theatre, that of Alexandra Palace Theatre is about a quarter, with a distance of 38 metres between the back row of the stalls to the stage. Statues of Greek muses were installed on either side of the proscenium arch. Most of the audience were seated in the raked floor area but there were also 2 balconies, neither of which reached the proscenium arch of the stage as was the case in many other London theatres of the time. It was reported that the stage could be seen from all seats. According to reports at the time the acoustics were good from every seat but others reported that the actors had to 'throw' their voices to be heard well by everyone. The theatre was originally lit by gaslight using gaseliers suspended from the ceiling but also had natural light from glazed roofing and six large sash windows, which were blocked with dark screens during performances. The theatre was one of the first to install electric lighting in 1898, and the saltwater dimmers used to control the brightness of the lights can still be seen backstage at the theatre. Early performances at the theatre included the operetta Breaking the Spell by Offenbach, a pantomime based on the fairy tale The Yellow Dwarf, and a ballet called Minerva. Performances of all types took place during the last 25 years of the 19th century but the Palace was closed for long periods due to lack of business with resulting financial difficulties. From 1875 to 1900 Alexandra Palace was privately owned, but In 1900 the palace and park became owned by the Alexandra Park Trust under the Alexandra Park and Palace Act (Public Purposes) Act. At the beginning of the 20th century cinema was becoming the most popular type of entertainment, so a Cinematograph film projector was installed in the theatre in 1901. The audience was allowed to smoke in the auditorium and, as the projector was unprotected and used to project highly flammable film, there was an inevitable fire risk. Middlesex County Council ordered some work to be done to prevent fire and as a result, the theatre was closed from 1907-1908. One of these precautions was to build a box around the projector, which can still be seen in the theatre today. Another was to fit a 40 foot long large iron girder weighing 6 tons above the proscenium arch of the stage to be used with a fire-proof safety curtain which divided the auditorium from the stage. During WW1, the entire Palace was requisitioned as a transit camp for Belgian refugees and then as an internment camp. The theatre was used as a dormitory, chapel, cinema and a space in which internees performed concerts. The Palace was handed back to the trustees in 1922 and W. J. MacQueen-Pope was appointed general manager of the Palace. He decided to use most of the war reparation money to refurbish the theatre. The upper balcony was removed, a new staircase added to the remaining balcony, new moldings added to the ceiling to reduce echo, and a new foyer created. The work was completed in 1923 and the theatre reopened with a performance of the pantomime Cinderella. It was reported in The Era that the theatre was a 'comfortable, warm, modern playhouse capable of staging the biggest shows'. The under stage machinery that produced the effects necessary in Victorian melodrama was no longer used, but most is still preserved beneath the stage. After the reopening, the performances in the theatre included drama, opera musical theatre, and variety. The Alexandra Palace Operatic and Dramatic Society, set up by MacQueen-Pope, with their star Nancy McMillan, performed several Gilbert and Sullivan light operas and Edwardian musical comedies. In 1926 the theatre was leased by Archie Pitt, husband and manager of the singer Gracie Fields, who practiced and performed in the theatre. Audiences declined during this period and the last public performance in the theatre, before it reopened in 2018, was a concert by a Royal Artillery band in 1934. In 1935 the east section of Alexandra Palace, including the theatre, was leased by the BBC to produce and broadcast the first public high-definition television shows. There were plans to develop the theatre as a third television studio, but after the Second World War these plans were abandoned. The theatre was instead used as a storage and rehearsal space by the BBC. After BBC productions moved to Lime Grove Studios in 1954, BBC News moved in and when they moved out in 1969, the Open University production team took over the lease, moving out in 1981. The Friends of Alexandra Palace Theatre was set up in 2002 by several local supporters of the theatre, including local actors, to support the restoration of the theatre. 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. Additional funds came from charitable trusts, businesses and individual donations. Construction in the theatre began in 2016 and included replacing the raked floor with a more versatile flat floor followed by reinstallation of the original floorboards, stabilising and sealing the plasterwork, strengthening and realigning the balcony, and installing new stairs, all while retaining the original decor as much as possible in the conservation style of arrested decay, A BBC Prom of Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury was performed and broadcast from the theatre in September 2018 and the theatre was officially reopened to the public in December 2018, with three days of performances involving 16 schools and a range of charities and organizations. Since then the theatre has hosted many performances of pantomime, opera, concerts, stand-up comedy and drama, including community performances. It also hosted the inaugural Earthshot Prize in 2021 and is frequently used for television and film recording. List of London venues Official Website

The Alexandra Palace television station in North London (grid reference TQ297901) is one of the oldest television transmission sites in the world. What was at the time called "high definition" (405-line) TV broadcasts on VHF were beamed from this mast from 1936 until the outbreak of World War II. It then lay dormant until it was used very successfully to foil the German Y-Gerät radio navigation system during the last stages of the Battle of Britain. After the war, it was reused for television until 1956, when it was superseded by the opening of the BBC's new main transmitting station for the London area at Crystal Palace. In 1982 Alexandra Palace became an active transmitting station again, with the opening of a relay transmitter to provide UHF television service to parts of North London poorly covered from Crystal Palace. The transmitter is owned and maintained by Arqiva.

Hornsey War Memorial is located in Park Road, Hornsey, in London, in front of the Hornsey Central Hospital, formerly the Hornsey Memorial Hospital. The memorial commemorates the men of the borough who died in the First World War and is in the form of a small red-brick chapel with Portland stone dressings. It was designed by George Lethbridge and dedicated in 1921. The names of the dead are inscribed on plaques inside the chapel. The chapel was renovated in 2007–09 when the old hospital was demolished and a new one built in its place. It is grade II listed with Historic England.Adjacent to the chapel is a small grassed area with stone benches and a modern V-shaped memorial wall into which the original plaques relating to the erection of the memorial have been set.

Hornsey Cottage Hospital, later Hornsey Central Hospital, was a local hospital in Crouch End, North London, opened in 1910. It closed in 2001, and was replaced by a polyclinic in 2009.

The New London Performing Arts Centre (NLPAC) is a performing arts school in Muswell Hill, North London, founded in 1995 by Emily Byron. With 20 years of experience, NLPAC is an ISTD Approved Dance Centre and is registered by Ofsted and the CDET. NLPAC is a registered charity and all profits go back into providing high quality and affordable classes consisting of Ballet, Tap, Modern contemporary, Street Dance and jazz, and Drama. Pupils range from 3 onwards to 19. The centre also runs Stage School which offers students a chance to learn all three disciplines of performing arts in one 2 hour session. Students will take 40 minutes of drama, dance and singing. As well as these the centre has private singing and musical lessons offering one-to-one training in a wide range of musical instruments. Students can choose to further go on and take an exam with NLPAC being an ABRSM and Trinity music examination centre. They also offer holiday workshops throughout school holidays. Classes on offer include: ISTD and RAD Ballet, ISTD Tap and Modern, Contemporary, Jazz, Street Dance, Hip Hop, Break Dance, Musical Theatre, LAMDA Exams, Drama classes, Private singing and music lessons following the ABRSM and Trinity Guildhall syllabus Students from the performing arts school have gone on to perform in every West End musical starring children actors, including Charlie and the Chocolate factory, Billy Elliot, Matilda and Les Misérables. In addition to this, they have starred in films such as Harry Potter and televised series such as Holby City and EastEnders.

Muswell Hill railway station was in Muswell Hill in North London, just north of the junction of Muswell Hill and Muswell Hill Place. Nothing remains of the station and Muswell Hill Primary School now occupies its former site. In the 1930s, plans were made to electrify the line and transfer the mainline service to London Underground's Northern line, but these were abandoned after the Second World War. The station closed for passengers in 1954 and goods in 1956.