Monday, 16 June 2014 09:10
Where have all the butchers gone?
Just imagine the bustle and activity of 1898 when such was the competition in the High Street of Barnet that shoppers had the choice of eleven butchers, including one pork butcher and two poultry dealers! Today only one shop remains, the Butcher’s Hook.
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Sunday, 15 June 2014 20:09
Yet more BT delays
British Telecom has been forced to admit that there will be another lengthy delay in providing a fast broadband service to up to 3,000 High Barnet households.
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Wednesday, 04 June 2014 09:05
Queen Elizabeth’s Boys’ School – an academic hothouse at the expense of local boys?
Around 2,000 boys from across London and the Home Counties are again expected to apply to study at Barnet’s award-winning Queen Elizabeth’s Boys’ School, which has just begun the selection process for the 180 places that will be available in September 2015.
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Tuesday, 03 June 2014 08:25
Wood Street’s whalebones - 75 years in situ
Seventy-five years ago workmen from a local building contractor, W. Foster & Sons, were asked to complete a highly unusual task: they had to restore the unique appearance of one of Chipping Barnet’s oldest residences.
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Tuesday, 03 June 2014 00:32
Dory’s cafe: a Barnet institution
When customer satisfaction is the only protection against the tsunami of change that is sweeping through so many of Britain’s high streets, few Barnet traders can match the long-standing loyalty of local residents for the refreshments served at Dory’s cafe, still going strong and now in the hands of the third generation of an Italian family.
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Monday, 02 June 2014 19:37
Barnet stadium for sale
Underhill stadium, home ground of Barnet Football Club for over a century, is to be sold. News that the club’s chairman Tony Kleanthous has put the Bees’ former stadium up for sale will be a disappointment for the campaign Back2Barnet that has been fighting to get professional football restored to the town.
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Tuesday, 27 May 2014 18:24
New bid for Battle of Barnet excavation
Glenn Foard, a celebrated military archaeologist, is to spend a day assessing the prospects for a new bid to obtain funding for an archaeological excavation to determine the precise site of the 1471 Battle of Barnet.
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Tuesday, 27 May 2014 17:59
34 bus route too costly to extend
Transport for London has turned down a suggestion by the Barnet Society that by slightly extending the final destination of the 34 bus service (Walthamstow Central to Barnet) there could be a reorganisation of bus stops at the top of Barnet Hill and an easing of traffic congestion.
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Wednesday, 14 May 2014 21:03
Abandoned Marie Foster home could become GP surgery
Feasibility study begins on future use of abandoned Marie Foster Home: could it become the site of a new GP surgery for High Barnet?
Having been High Barnet’s most notorious blot on the landscape for the last decade, a future use for the long-derelict Marie Foster Home and surrounding land is at last being considered by NHS Property Services.
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Monday, 12 May 2014 17:15
Pop-up to encourage revival
One of the many vacant frontages along Barnet High Street is about to get a new lease of life as a pop-up shop where aspiring independent traders, artists and voluntary groups can display samples of their work, goods and crafts.
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Friday, 02 May 2014 14:36
Preview - The new look Spires
New look for Spires shopping centre: a continental cafe-style culture for Barnet High Street?
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Thursday, 01 May 2014 10:36
Swiss chalet cladding off but saga goes on
Barnet Council has promised that a heritage officer will carry out an inspection in Church Passage in the “very near future” in an attempt to resolve continuing disagreement over cladding on the frontage of retail premises in the heart of the High Barnet conservation area.
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Tuesday, 29 April 2014 14:32
Loads of cash to improve Barnet’s traffic bottleneck
Barnet Council has almost £150,000 available which could be spent immediately on improving the road junction at the top of Barnet Hill, if only an agreement could be reached on how best to ease traffic congestion and make it safer for pedestrians.
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Wednesday, 23 April 2014 16:21
Plans go in for Spires’ facelift
A restaurant with an outside seating area will become part of the High Street frontage of the Spires’ shopping centre if Barnet Council gives its approval.
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Saturday, 19 April 2014 17:32
New bus stops for High Barnet
A new layout for High Barnet’s bus stops could benefit passengers and speed up traffic flow. Transport for London has been asked to consider reorganising the bus stops at the top of Barnet Hill in order to reduce traffic congestion around Barnet parish church and to provide easier access for bus passengers.
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Saturday, 29 March 2014 20:34
Barnet a boutique shopping town?
An imaginative array of ideas for reviving Barnet’s shopping centre was outlined at the Barnet Society’s annual question and answer session with the Chipping Barnet MP Mrs Theresa Villiers.
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Saturday, 29 March 2014 20:58
British Telecom on the spot
The Barnet Society pinpoints the sites of missing telecoms cabinets needed to deliver a fast broadband service. The Barnet Society has identified eight sites where it believes British Telecom needs to install additional kerbside telecoms cabinets if several thousand High Barnet households are ever going to have the chance to obtain a fast broadband connection.
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Wednesday, 19 March 2014 16:19
And the band played on...
Barnet Museum is staging a display of instruments and memorabilia belonging to Barnet Band, thought to be the oldest musical group in the London Borough of Barnet, which is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year.
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Wednesday, 19 March 2014 00:00
Age shall not weary them
Local historians are busy researching the lives of Barnet men who lost their lives in the First World War. The aim is to compile as many life histories as possible in support of a special exhibition which is being organised by Barnet Museum to commemorate the centenary of the Great War.
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Monday, 10 March 2014 18:13
Wet, wetter, wettest
After collecting High Barnet’s rainfall figures since the 1980s, a Barnet family can say without hesitation that this winter has been the wettest locally for at least thirty years.
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