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9 unusual facts about Alexandra Palace


2014 World Championship of Ping Pong

The "2014 World Championship of Ping Pong" was a table tennis tournament that was held from 4 January 2014 to 5 January 2014 at the Great Hall in Alexandra Palace.

Ana Šargić

Šargić was the official representative of her country to the Miss World 2002 pageant held in Alexandra Palace, London, United Kingdom, where she placed as one of the Top 20 semifinalists of the competition.

Azra Akın

Thus, she represented Turkey in the Miss World beauty pageant which was held on December 7, 2002 at Alexandra Palace, London, which she also won.

Circus Tavern

It was the venue of the championships from its inauguration in 1994, although the championship's size and popularity outgrew the venue and the PDC announced that the championship would move to the Alexandra Palace for the 2008 PDC World Darts Championship.

Harrogate International Centre

The HIC is the third largest integrated venue in the UK, beaten in size only by Alexandra Palace in London and by the SECC in Glasgow.

Kathrine Sørland

Sørland won the Frøken Norge (Miss Norway) competition in 2001, and went on to represent Norway in the Miss World pageant in 2002 held at the Alexandra Palace in London, the United Kingdom.

Ken Friar

During this time, he took part in discussions held in the 1970s between the boards of Arsenal and rivals Tottenham Hotspur FC to share a new stadium at Alexandra Palace.

Robert James Clayton

When the BBC resumed television service from Alexandra Palace after the war GEC won the important contract to implement the first link to another transmitter at Birmingham.

Wireless World

It was also aimed at home constructors, publishing articles on building radio receivers and, after the BBC started regular 405-line TV programmes from Alexandra Palace in 1936, complete details on building your own TV set - including the winding of the high-voltage CRT deflector coils (not a task for the faint hearted).


Café Continental

Broadcast live from the BBC's studios at Alexandra Palace, the programme opened with a "Maître d'hôtel" who welcomed the television audience to the "cafe" set and told them that "your table has been reserved, as always."

Charles Samuel Franklin

In 1935 the trustees leased part of Alexandra Palace to the BBC, which used it as the production and transmission center for their new BBC Television Service.

Crown of Beauty Theatre

before=Alexandra Palace
London, England (2002)

Sala Kongresowa
Warsaw, Poland (2006)

Gallagher Convention Center,
Johannesburg, South Africa

Dolly Shepherd

At the age of 16, she got a job as a waitress at the Alexandra Palace in North London so that she could see the composer John Philip Sousa.

Fred Culpitt

In 1936 the BBC began test broadcasts from Alexandra Palace, London, for the world's first regular television service.

Muffin the Mule

The original programmes featuring the character were presented by Annette Mills, sister of John Mills, and broadcast live by the BBC from their studios at Alexandra Palace from 1946 to 1952.


see also

2nd Vision

After Etheridge and ex-Gryphon bassist Jonathan Davie joined them, the band, renamed 20/20 Vision, played a well-received gig at the Alexandra Palace in May 1979.