Alexandra Palace: What Was It First For?
Anastasia Corwin
2025-05-11 00:51:44
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With ideals of “affording all classes of the community, on a grand scale, the means of intellectual improvement and physical recreation…” this building perched on top of the Muswell Hill in 450 acres of parkland looked, in Victorian splendour, across all of London. This palace of industry was to be a showcase of the Victorian age in all its vitality and abundance, and you sped there in 15 minutes from central London on the brand new form of transport – the railway! The mission statement of Alexandra Palace in the 19th century was not that different to our current aims: “relaxation – both physical and mental” designed to educate and entertain the working man (and woman) on their rare holidays.
Forrest Boyle
2025-05-11 00:01:14
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The first plans for a Palace of the People in the style of the Crystal Palace, on the site of the former Tottenham Wood Farm, were proposed by the designer Owen Jones in 1858 but did not materialise. In the following year Alexandra Park Co. Ltd. acquired the farmland for conversion to a park and to build the People’s Palace which had been proposed by Owen Jones. The park of 250 acres was opened in 1863 and named after Princess Alexandra of Denmark who had married Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), earlier that year.
Dawson Casper
2025-05-10 23:58:43
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Alexandra Palace is situated in North London and known around the world as the birthplace of television. In 1935 the Corporation leased the eastern part of the building from which the first public television transmissions were made. In 1936 it hosted trials between the EMI-Marconi and Baird television system to decide which would carry the television standard for the future. From 1936 until the early 1950s, except during the Second World War, Alexandra Palace remained the major production centre for BBC television, broadcasting landmark programmes such as The Grove Family and historic events including the 1953 Coronation.
Irma Murray
2025-05-10 23:31:08
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The imposing Alexandra Palace, with its surrounding park, sitting high on a hill in North London, has been a major leisure attraction since Victorian times. Its success spurred a plan for a similar venue in North London. In December 1858 he exhibited drawings at Vestry Hall, Piccadilly for a ‘Palace of the People, Muswell Hill’, a similar building and concept to Crystal Palace. Despite its failure to attract finance, Jones’s basic idea for a People’s Palace at Muswell Hill was to continue. The Alexandra Palace Company was formed, named in honour of the new princess, and it acquired Tottenham Wood Farm. The Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures & Trade held a major world fair at South Kensington in 1862, on the site now occupied by the Natural History Museum, to showcase advances in technology. In its centre was a portico entrance and dome that had previously been features of the South Kensington exhibition. In 1868 a racecourse of a mile in length, and extensive stabling, was opened at the foot of the hill, providing a useful income.
Newell Franecki
2025-05-10 22:31:25
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Initially it was a pioneering exhibition venue.
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