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Monday, 11 July 2016 12:10

Classic cars never lose their appeal

Andy Banks's Westfield; Jayne Evans's Rover MPI Cooper; T and H Motor's Bentley
Support for Barnet Market’s annual classic car show has proved so strong that it has become a showcase event for the increasingly-popular Barnet Classic Car Club.
Monday, 11 July 2016 07:47

Insight into lost hamlet of Kitts End

Barnet Museum volunteers Margaret Luck (left) and Pat Alison examine pottery and masonry fragments
Fragments of pottery and tiles found during an excavation of land within Wrotham Park has confirmed that the hamlet of Kitts End did exist during the 1471 Battle of Barnet – and that in fact there was probably habitation there as early as the 11th century.
Monday, 13 June 2016 10:21

A misty Easter Sunday morning, just north of Barnet

Medieval military artist Graham Turner with his painting Challenge in the Mist. From left to right, Mike Noronha, curator, Barnet Museum; Graham Turner; and Fiona Jones who is leading the museum’s bid for financial support from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
A print of Graham Turner’s celebrated painting of a young Richard III looking apprehensively across towards the Lancastrian army at the 1471 Battle of Barnet, is to go on display at Barnet Museum to help promote the current archaeological survey to determine the precise site of the battlefield.
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