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15 Apr 2022 | Written by Nick Jones
Residents were delighted to welcome back to High Barnet the celebrated chewing gum artist Ben Wilson who spent a day refreshing a trail of tiny pavement illustrations that starts outside his parents' former home in Carnarvon Road and continues round the corner into Alston Road.


12 Apr 2022 | Written by Nick Jones
A two-century old gravestone in Monken Hadley churchyard was the final stop on a guided walk around locations associated with inspirational women from Barnet's past.


11 Apr 2022 | Written by Robin Bishop
Barnet Council has refused planning permission for a 50-megawatt electric battery array in the green heart of the borough. An earlier application for a gas peaking plant nearby was withdrawn last year.


9 Apr 2022 | Written by Nick Jones
An online election hustings is being organised by local pressure groups in the run-up to the May council elections to promote what they believe should become a shopping list of environmental targets for a newly elected Barnet Council.


6 Apr 2022 | Written by Nick Jones
Street parties, ceremonial tree plantings and the lighting of the beacon on top of Monken Hadley church tower are just some of the local events being arranged to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee in June.


2 Apr 2022 | Written by Nick Jones
Bus passengers mourning the loss of the 84 service from New Barnet to Potters Bar have taken to social media to express their anger. “It’s such a shame…I never thought the day would come when we would be cut off from Potters Bar,” said one Barnet resident.


24 Mar 2022 | Written by Robin Bishop
Last night Barnet Council’s Strategic Planning Committee unanimously approved conversion of the existing building into a 90-place school for pupils with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), despite concerns on the part of the Barnet Society.


20 Mar 2022 | Written by Nick Jones
After missing out on so much during the Covid.19 pandemic, Barnet Choral Society are in final rehearsals for a belated 80th anniversary concert -- a performance of one of the great challenges of choral singing, Edward Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius.


18 Mar 2022 | Written by Nick Jones
The bridegroom at this fashionable Monken Hadley wedding early in the last century was William Ralph Driffill, who became an admired organist and composer.


16 Mar 2022 | Written by Nick Jones
Chemotherapy patients receiving treatment at Chase Farm Hospital will benefit from two new cooling cap systems to be purchased with funds raised by Barnet and District CancerLink. A cheque for £22,890 was handed over by members of the cancer care group at a ceremony organised by the Royal Free Charity.


16 Mar 2022 | Written by Nick Jones
Saving rainwater is becoming ever more important in the face of global warming and our unusually dry summers...so Barnet Environment Centre in Byng Road has installed a giant water butt to capture and store all it can.


15 Mar 2022 | Written by Nick Jones
A recital is to be held at St Mark's Church, Barnet Vale, in April to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of a celebrated organist and composer who lived in Barnet and whose organ and piano scores reflected the musical fashions of the Victorian era.


13 Mar 2022 | Written by Robin Bishop
Eighteen months ago, the Barnet Society wrote that flouting of planning laws at 1 Sunset View and 70 High Street would be tests of Barnet Council’s will to enforce its planning decisions. Both owners appealed against Enforcement Orders, and both have lost. The decisions are significant victories over the degradation of Barnet’s Conservation Areas.


11 Mar 2022 | Written by Nick Jones
After the go ahead was given last month for controversial plans to build tower blocks of flats on the two car parks at Cockfosters tube station the government has intervened at the last minute to halt the project.


7 Mar 2022 | Written by Nick Jones
Volunteer working parties have managed to clear fallen branches and mark with hazard tape some of the twenty or so trees on Monken Hadley Common which were brought down in Storm Eunice.


2 Mar 2022 | Written by Nick Jones
To celebrate women's history month two guided walks are being held to raise awareness of the buildings and places that are associated with inspirational women from Barnet's past.


2 Mar 2022 | Written by Nick Jones
Sheila Hunt, who for almost fifty years was an inspirational leader for the Girl Guides movement in High Barnet, has died at the age of 93.


27 Feb 2022 | Written by Nick Jones
Pieces of medieval pottery and broken roof tiles have been discovered during a three-day archaeological dig at the rear of traditional sweet shop Hopscotch at 88 Barnet High Street. Significant finds that dated from later centuries included clay pipes from the 1600s and various bottles from the Victorian era.


24 Feb 2022 | Written by Nick Jones
Family history enthusiasts might be able to help in the search for memories, reflections or even photographs of school days in Barnet in the 1920s and 1930s. Marion Griffin is researching the life of her father John Samuel who was one of three boys and a girl born to a domestic servant at Barnet Workhouse.


23 Feb 2022 | Written by Nick Jones
A second attempt to get approval for an enlarged development of blocks of flats on the former gas works site at New Barnet has been refused -- and for now Barnet's largest brownfield site will continue to remain unused.




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