Star Cinema

Located between Upper Holloway and Finsbury Park in inner north London. The Hornsey Palace opened in June 1911. The cinema’s entrance and exit were converted from Victorian terraced houses at numbers 335 and 345 Hornsey Road. The auditorium was built in the rear gardens of the houses in-between. It was operated by an independent company known as Islington Cinemas Ltd.

By 1922, under new owners it was re-named Star Cinema. Business was so bad that the owners aimed to claim insurance on the building by setting it on fire on 8th June 1923. Max Goldberg escaped to Ireland, but the other owner William Passingham, who had suffered burns from the fire was charged with arson. The fire only did minimal damage and under new management it reopened on 24th January 2024. It was closed in 1937 and became a warehouse. In 1957 it was purchased by EMI for use as a recording studion, but the building was so dilapidated, it proved to much, and it was later demolished, housing has been built on the site.

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