A challenge to re-imagine the appearance of familiar buildings in High Barnet’s town centre — such as the parish church, Tudor Hall or the twin towers at the entrance to The Spires shopping centre — produced some dramatic results at an art workshop.
Fun and enjoyment but also frustration — that was the buzz when hundreds of residents and visitors enjoyed a day out at the Barnet Vale Festival in support of a long-running campaign to refurbish and reopen the former pavilion in Tudor Park.
An extension to a community garden and green space which is now along three sides of a New Barnet church was officially opened at a garden party to celebrate the success of Barnet’s Incredible Edible campaign.
For its fourth annual series of classical concerts, the High Barnet Chamber Music Festival opens with The Mithras Trio who are returning to the parish church on Saturday 29 June after their sold-out recital in the festival’s debut season.
A joint commitment to work to protect the Green Belt was delivered by Chipping Barnet’s two leading parliamentary candidates — Conservative MP Theresa Villiers and Labour challenger Dan Tomlinson — at a general election hustings at the parish church.
Barnet and Southgate College have been told that no further action can be taken during the next six months to sell off the vacant Tudor Hall on its High Barnet campus opposite the parish church.
The five leading candidates standing in the general election for the Chipping Barnet constituency have been invited to appear at an election hustings to be held at Barnet parish church on Saturday 22 June at 7pm.
High Banet’s popular Byng Road allotments owe their existence to the Dig for Victory campaign at the start of World War II which encouraged the home cultivation of fruit and vegetables.
Monken Hadley Church was one of 800 locations across the country where beacons were lit to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
Hadley Football Club — the oldest playing in Barnet — has a surprise away fixture playing a friendly match in the tiny European state of San Marino on Sunday 9 June when they take on a well-placed local team AC Juvenes Dogana.
Up to three free books can be taken on any one visit to a new charity shop established in The Spires shopping centre by Global Education Trust Bookshops.
Cyclists needing an emergency repair — or perhaps to pump up a tyre — can now take advantage of instant bike repair stands which have been installed by Barnet Council, including one outside the police station in Barnet High Street.
Three evening concerts are to be held this summer in a woodland glade beside Jack’s Lake — a chance to enjoy classical music in the open air while celebrating the popularity and appeal of Monken Hadley Common.
Barnet Museum is to take another step in its bid to try to convert the historic Tudor Hall into a national centre for explaining and commemorating the Wars of the Roses and the role of the 1471 Battle of Barnet.
Barnet Medieval Festival, which was due to take place over the weekend of Saturday and Sunday June 8 and 9, has had to be postponed because the Byng Road playing fields have become too waterlogged due to recent heavy rains.
Eleven Lotus Cars were lined up on the top deck of The Spires car park for the ninth Barnet Classic Car Show in tribute to automotive engineer Colin Chapman who lived in New Barnet when he designed the famous Lotus Seven.
Highlight of the revived Arkley community fair was an all-comers dog show which resulted in two surprise winners — a blind dog and a rescue dog took the rosettes for best in show.
A 24-year-old history of art graduate has taken on the tenancy of one of High Barnet’s notable public houses — Ye Olde Monken Holt which is at the Hadley Green end of the High Street.
High Barnet’s historic Tudor Hall has been declared an asset of community value — a safeguard which gives the town six months to see whether the building can be secured for public use.
Banners around the town are promoting the annual Barnet Classic Car Show on Sunday 19 May — and what promises to be an engaging weekend starts on Saturday afternoon with the return of Arkley community fayre at Brickfield Lane.
Beating the Bounds of the parish of Chipping Barnet — an ancient custom first recorded in Barnet in 1658 — was re-enacted on May bank holiday Monday for the first time for nearly 30 years.
Rehearsals are well underway for a concert to be held at Monken Hadley Church on Thursday 6 June to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
Retails experts say high streets must diversify to survive and Barnet High Street is no exception: a former hardware shop has been transformed into a tuition centre for mathematics.
Volunteer working parties make their contribution towards assisting Barnet Council with the task of maintaining Hadley Green, clearing litter, and helping to reduce pollution in the five historic ponds and ditches that add to the character of a much-cherished green open space.
Barnet Parish Church held a day-long series of events for the official launch of a fund-raising appeal for urgent repairs to its much admired 140-year-old church organ — said to be the “beating heart” of the High Barnet community.
A scheme to expand the accident and emergency department at Barnet Hospital should be completed by January next year including improvements for treating children and for patients arriving by ambulance.
Victoria Miller, manager of Chipping Barnet Foodbank and winner of one of Barnet’s 2024 Civic Awards, is celebrating another success — confirmation that her team of volunteers are making progress in their ambition to reduce people’s dependency on food banks.
Once again competing for attention well above the hustle and bustle of the High Street are the heraldic banners and coats of arms of the royalty and noblemen whose troops fought at the 1471 Battle of Barnet.
A group of residents in Arkley have purchased an installed a wall-mounted defibrillator for use in any medical emergency that might occur within their own community or wider neighbourhood.
In a futuristic world which has been depleted of natural resources and ravaged by brutal capitalism, High Barnet becomes a strategic focal point for a desperate struggle with big business as the town still has the cleanest air between London and York.
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