Hornsey Town Hall Arts Centre

We held our wedding ceremony here. It has a stunning interior, even though it is falling apart a bit. The arts collective that run the place are very nice and everything worked wonderfully on the day, though it was somewhat harder work to organise things with them than I think it needed to be :-)

Fairly ramshackle old building but lots of character and you can still see what a great venue it must have been in it's heyday.

Seats that hark back to school assemblies, when people were much, much slimmer! Reasonably priced drinks although service is very much hit n miss.

A must-see before it goes into private hands! A completely untouched 1940s Art Deco gem, still in original condition, with amazing interiors and intricate metalworks. Don't miss the toilets (!) and do take the tour if you can.

Went where for the Twin Peaks UK Festival in October 2017. Superb venue with great 1930s architecture.

I love the freedom of choice that a Silent Disco provides. The lighting is very good, much better than many night clubs. And the atmosphere is great!

One of the first major modernist buildings in London, opened in November 1936 - built and paid for 100% by the public via our taxes. Stopped being a Town Hall in 1968. Empty and rotting for around a decade before a period of interim use as an arts centre starting in 2016.

Largest sprung floor in London. Plenty of 'art deco-like' features, Crittall Windows throughout. Council Chamber pretty much restored.
Lots of controversy locally over the 130-year lease to a developer registered in the CayMan Islands who get to profit from building 145 dwellings in the Car Park in exchange for turfing out all the existing arts and small business use for two years whilst they turn the inside into a luxury hotel with an arts venue attached.

What a night that was, can hardly remember much.
But they should definitely keep up with the Big Latin takeover every summer. They were fantastic.
Looking forward to the next one

A wonderful civic building and focus of community life in North London. Now sold off by the council and due to be re-developed into by flats for millionaires. Another thread of London's community fabric is pulled out, and all our lives become poorer. The slow tradegy of Thatcherite local government policy rolls on until there is nothing left.