News from The Barnet Society

Barnet Museum has been fighting for its life since December 2010 when the Council announced that it would be withdrawing its funding. The Museum is managed by Barnet & District Local History Society and run entirely by volunteers.

Like so much of the rest of the country High Barnet is losing its historic public houses at an alarming rate.

Some long-awaited summer sunshine in late July provided the final seal of approval for Barnet’s town centre uplift and the newly-created meeting and seating area beside St John’s Church.  Instead of a line of forbidding holly bushes there are now new walkways and benches, sweet smelling lavender in freshly formed flower beds, and an attractive

In spite of the Barnet Society having drawn up plans for improving the junction of the High Street and Wood Street at the top of Barnet Hill over a year ago and the new Barnet College having opened last September, the Council have made very little progress on the proposals.