High Street The Spires

Sunday, 26 May 2019 09:19

Barnet gift shop scoops up top prize

Louise Rolfe with her award for the independent gift retailer of the year for shops inside the M25 motorway.
After 18 years of hard graft building up custom for her Barnet High Street gift shop, former actress Louise Rolfe has won a top accolade for highly rated independent retailers.
Wednesday, 10 April 2019 10:40

Reminder of High Street "great conflagration”

Three shops in Barnet High Street – next to Barclays bank – were destroyed in the “great conflagration” of 1908 when firemen complained they had been hampered by a shortage of water
Yet another change of owner of a Barnet High Street shop with a distinctly checkered history, has evoked memories of the day the premises were destroyed in what become known as the “Great Fire of Barnet” of August 1908.
Friday, 29 March 2019 08:28

High Street offers new trading opportunities

Tracie Murchison (left) and Petra Patrick believe the Pink Shop offers creative businesses a valuable High Street outlet
Injecting fresh life into High Barnet’s distressed High Street is a challenge for retailers, but two women entrepreneurs believe that their offer of a frequently-changing range of craft goods and products is proving popular.
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