The Barnet Society is collecting photographs and stories that captured the fun and friendliness of the many street parties held over the four-day Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
A veteran High Barnet motorcycling enthusiast, 86-year-old Peter Biles — who bought his first motorbike just before the Coronation in 1953 — was one of the veterans taking pride of place in the pageant The Times of Our Lives on the final day of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations in Whitehall and The Mall.
With fine weather on bank holiday Friday, Platinum Jubilee street parties were the order of the day, and the party planners were delighted with the turn out.
Continue reading Platinum Jubilee street parties get celebrations off to a flying start
Objectors to a plan to install a 20-metre high 5G network phone mast on the main approach road to Barnet Hospital say it would have an overbearing impact on residents in nearby roads and perhaps become a potential health hazard.
Continue reading Plan for a 5G phone mast in High Barnet as high as the Angel of the North
With so few outlets available for small shopkeepers and with so little space for new businesses and shared working, Chipping Barnet Town Team has decided to take the initiative and open temporary accommodation for budding entrepreneurs in a prime location.
A newly opened recital hall at Queen Elizabeth’s School for Boys is to host three concerts to be held in July as part of the second annual High Barnet Chamber Music Festival.
Opening the new £4 million Signature care home in Wood Street, High Barnet, was the first official duty for the newly installed Mayor of Barnet, Councillor Alison Moore.
What is being billed as The Big Picnic on Saturday 4 June on the lawn beside Barnet Parish Church will be one of the highlights of local celebrations for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee bank holiday weekend.
Hadley FC, the oldest football club playing in Barnet, have won promotion to a higher league.
Continue reading Football fans have something to cheer about as Hadley FC celebrate fresh success
Hadley Green’s pink marble drinking fountain — out of order for the last 50 years — might possibly secure a new lease of life and once again offer walkers and even their dogs a refreshing drink of water.
Barnet High Street is to lose one of its convenience stores — the Sainsbury’s Local at 146 High Street is to close later this year.
Barnet Council is to charge £790 during the summer months to remove grass clippings from High Barnet’s two bowling greens — way above the £210 that was charged last year.
Continue reading Hefty bill for taking away grass cuttings causes consternation at Barnet Bowls Club
After investing £22 million in building a 100-apartment luxury care home in Wood Street, High Barnet, the Signature Care Homes group has now embarked on a marketing drive to attract future residents.
Continue reading Barnet’s high-end new care home seeks to attract residents for 100 apartments
Golfers with disabilities assembled at The Shire golf course in St Albans Road, Barnet, for the launch of the Cairns Cup, a new international disability golf competition between teams from Europe and the USA.
Continue reading Disabled golfers stage new international tournament at Barnet’s 18-hole course
Labour has taken overall control of Barnet Borough Council for the first time since the London boroughs were created in the 1960s — and High Barnet is one of the former Conservative strongholds that now has two Labour councillors.
Barnet High Street is busily adapting to changes in trading patterns that developed during lockdown, and which seem to be here to stay given the ability of so many employees to work from home.
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.
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Council services will be running on a revised schedule over Christmas and New Year.
This includes: recycling and refuse bin collection days, library and leisure centre opening dates and hours, and our customer contact centre.
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