The archive contains the records of the organisations responsible for the site, including the Alexandra Park and Palace Charitable Trust, the Alexandra Palace Trading Company and the Alexandra Palace Development Team, who coordinated the 1980s restoration. Materials include original architectural plans, administrative documents, board minutes, photographs, and marketing materials.

This collection comprises ephemera relating to Alexandra Palace: postcards, posters, prints, tickets and a small collection of objects. Highlights include tickets for the opening season in 1875 and early 3D stereoscope slides. Our poster collection includes a recently acquired psychedelic poster for the 14 Hour Technicolor Dream in 1967, and continues to grow as we collect modern gig posters.

Lovingly curated by the society archivist Simon Vaughan, this collection has been created by former BBC television staff members who worked at the Alexandra Palace studios. Their compiled personal papers offer fascinating insights on an internationally significant subject. Unique annotated documents, distinct from archives held by the BBC and elsewhere, these papers include working notes, scrapbooks, memos and drawings by: the first television producer Cecil Madden; director D.H Munro; lighting designer D.R. Campbell; master carpenter Tom Edwards; and post-war designer Richard Greenough.

Nancy McMillan was star of the Alexandra Palace Operatic and Dramatic Society through the 1920s and early 1930s. Her family have kindly donated her papers, which include photographs, programmes, press cuttings, and even good luck notecards from flowers on opening night. With very little surviving material evidence relating to the Theatre in use, we are very fortunate to house this evocative collection.

Carl Holzer was an Austrian citizen living in London who was interned at Alexandra Palace throughout the First World War. An accomplished artist, he drew and painted fellow internees and documented life in the camp. Many of his fifteen portraits in oil are painted on recycled materials. One of them records a food shopping list on the reverse. Holzer’s paintings and postcards were kindly donated to the AP Archive by his family.

Alexandra Palace holds the largest collection of historic assets from the Park and Palace, and is the official repository for related materials. Other archival sources, including our historic & Victorian programme collection, can be accessed at: Bruce Castle Museum; also at Hornsey Historical Society; the National Archives; and V&A Department of Theatre and Performance.