Participants at Alexandra Palace commemorative exhibition marking the centenary of The First World War on the Home Front, UK
An exhibition exploring Alexandra Palace’s little-known role in the First World War almost exactly 100 years to the day that the first Belgium refugees walked into the Great Hall to commemorate the centenary. The year-long exhibition looks at the Palace’s time during World War One - first as a refugee centre for displaced Belgian citizens and later as an internment camp for German and Austrian ‘enemy aliens’. The first refugees arrived at the Palace on September 14, 1914, to be sorted before they were moved to permanent accommodation around the country. The Palace was then turned into an internment camp with prisoners first arriving from May 14, 1915, and remained until June 1919. Eventually, 3,000 people would be kept prisoner at Alexandra Palace - although, as an article on the British Association of Local History notes, it “was reportedly ‘considered as the best non-paying camp in England’”.
Size: 5760px × 3840px
Location: Alexandra Palace, Wood Green, North London, England, United Kingdom
Photo credit: © Jeff Gilbert / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: alexandra, alexandra palace wwi home front exhibition, exhibition, front internment, home, palace, war, world
