Barnet History

Tuesday, 29 December 2020 17:59

Was this rare early film shot in Barnet?

Was this rare early film shot in Barnet?
Birt Acres, a key figure in the invention of British movies, lived and worked in Chipping Barnet. His 1897 short Band Marching down a Street is one of very few to survive from the earliest days of film. Local history investigation has convinced me that it was shot in Stapylton Road.
Saturday, 25 August 2018 09:42

Sporting history for Barnet rugby

The 1919 line-up for Barnet Rugby Football Club for its inaugural match against St Barts in a rented field at the bottom of Barnet Hill
Barnet might have lost its football club, but another of the town’s sporting traditions is still making history: Barnet Elizabethans Rugby Football Club is about to start a year of commemorative events to celebrate its centenary.
Wednesday, 11 April 2018 11:11

Re-living the Battles of St Albans and Barnet

Gunnery from the time of the Wars of the Roses was a highlight of events at the 2017 Tea in the Park
Scenes from the battles of St Albans (1461) and Barnet (1471) – two of the engagements in the Wars of the Roses – are to be re-created as part of the Barnet Medieval Festival to be held over the weekend of June 9 and 10 at the Byng Road playing fields.
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