Transport for London has rejected a plea for out-of-service buses to offer a skeleton 84 service when heading back and forth between Potters Bar bus garage and stops where services start and terminate in High Barnet.
Organ and piano pieces by the celebrated Barnet organist and composer William Ralph Driffill were played for the first time in probably 100 years at a recital commemorating the centenary of his death.
Continue reading Recital commemorating much-admired Barnet organist, composer and music teacher
Knights on horseback are to feature for the first time in military re-enactments at the fourth annual Barnet Medieval Festival to be held in mid-June at the Byng Road playing fields.
Residents were delighted to welcome back to High Barnet the celebrated chewing gum artist Ben Wilson who spent a day refreshing a trail of tiny pavement illustrations that starts outside his parents’ former home in Carnarvon Road and continues round the corner into Alston Road.
A two-century old gravestone in Monken Hadley churchyard was the final stop on a guided walk around locations associated with inspirational women from Barnet’s past.
An online election hustings is being organised by local pressure groups in the run-up to the May council elections to promote what they believe should become a shopping list of environmental targets for a newly elected Barnet Council.
Continue reading Election campaigning to urge Barnet Council to try to become greenest borough in London
Street parties, ceremonial tree plantings and the lighting of the beacon on top of Monken Hadley church tower are just some of the local events being arranged to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in June.
Continue reading Preparations underway for celebrations marking the Queen’s 70 years on the throne
Bus passengers mourning the loss of the 84 service from New Barnet to Potters Bar have taken to social media to express their anger.
Continue reading Dismay and anger over withdrawal of 84 bus between New Barnet and Potters Bar
After missing out on so much during the Covid.19 pandemic, Barnet Choral Society are in final rehearsals for a belated 80th anniversary concert — a performance of one of the great challenges of choral singing, Edward Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius.
The bridegroom at this fashionable Monken Hadley wedding early in the last century was William Ralph Driffill, who became an admired organist and composer.
Continue reading Barnet wedding photo: a reminder of a family history with a musical twist
Chemotherapy patients receiving treatment at Chase Farm Hospital will benefit from two new cooling cap systems to be purchased with funds raised by Barnet and District CancerLink.
Saving rainwater is becoming ever more important in the face of global warming and our unusually dry summers…so Barnet Environment Centre in Byng Road has installed a giant water butt to capture and store all it can.
A recital is to be held at St Mark’s Church, Barnet Vale, in April to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of a celebrated organist and composer who lived in Barnet and whose organ and piano scores reflected the musical fashions of the Victorian era.
Continue reading Appeal for information about an admired Barnet church organist and composer
After the go ahead was given last month for controversial plans to build tower blocks of flats on the two car parks at Cockfosters tube station the government has intervened at the last minute to halt the project.
Volunteer working parties have managed to clear fallen branches and mark with hazard tape some of the twenty or so trees on Monken Hadley Common which were brought down in Storm Eunice.
Continue reading Warning to walkers: avoid hazardous trees yet to be cleared on Monken Hadley Common
To celebrate women’s history month two guided walks are being held to raise awareness of the buildings and places that are associated with inspirational women from Barnet’s past.
Continue reading Remembering Barnet’s remarkable women — join the walk
Sheila Hunt, who for almost fifty years was an inspirational leader for the Girl Guides movement in High Barnet, has died at the age of 93.
Continue reading Barnet Brownies and Guides pay tribute to a leader who inspired so many
Pieces of medieval pottery and broken roof tiles have been discovered during a three-day archaeological dig at the rear of traditional sweet shop Hopscotch at 88 Barnet High Street.
Continue reading Archaeologists turn up fragments of everyday life from medieval times in Barnet
Family history enthusiasts might be able to help in the search for memories, reflections or even photographs of school days in Barnet in the 1920s and 1930s.
Continue reading Appeal to family historians: looking back at school days in Barnet 100 years ago
A second attempt to get approval for an enlarged development of blocks of flats on the former gas works site at New Barnet has been refused — and for now Barnet’s largest brownfield site will continue to remain unused.
Of all the curiosities in High Barnet, perhaps the one which evokes the greatest pleasure is a collection of intricate tiny houses which decorate a tree stump in St Albans Road.
New premises are to be found for the neighbourhood police teams serving the wards in and around High Barnet before the Metropolitan Police goes ahead with the sale of the police station in the High Street.
A day’s work pruning some of the trees which produce fruit for Barnet’s foodbanks was the latest initiative for volunteers of Barnet Community Harvesters.
Continue reading Tree pruners hoping for another bumper crop for Barnet’s foodbanks
Hertfordshire County Council has stepped in to save much of the 84 bus service between St Albans and New Barnet station — but a rescue deal only applies to the St Albans to Potters Bar section of the route and it looks like leaving Barnet residents without a vital service.
Continue reading Barnet residents could lose out in Hertfordshire’s rescue deal for 84 bus service
Tree planting and litter picking were two initiatives in what became a weekend of community action organised by the Barnet Society and the Barnet Residents Association.
Brewer and pub retailer Greene King have given an assurance that a proposed refurbishment of the Mitre Inn in Barnet High Street will be carried out with the “utmost respect” for an historic 17th century coaching inn.
Continue reading Make over plans for Ye Olde Mitre Inne need careful monitoring says Barnet MP
“Dogs and cats welcome” is the invitation that awaits customers at Nika, an innovative pet cafe which has opened on Barnet High Street.
Continue reading New destination for Barnet dog owners — a High Street cafe that welcomes pets
Passengers who use the 84 bus service between New Barnet station and St Albans have launched a petition because of the threatened withdrawal of the route from the Metroline schedule.
Continue reading Fears of threatened withdrawal of 84 bus from New Barnet station to St Albans
Hertsmere Borough Council has withdrawn plans for housing and other development across vast tracts of Green Belt land to the north and west of Barnet following an outcry from residents about the loss of countryside.
Continue reading Outrage over Green Belt housing plans forces retreat by Hertsmere Borough Council
An iconic building in Barnet High Street — the much admired art deco frontage of what was once a Montague Burton menswear shop — is about to get a new lease of life when the upper floor is converted into a soft-play area for toddlers and small children.
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