Formed to protect, preserve and improve buildings, transport, roads and open spaces in Finchley and Friern Barnet and their environs, and to explore the history and the special features of the area. The Finchley Society covers the old Borough of Finchley and the Urban District of Friern Barnet, now part of the London Borough of Barnet, and takes an interest in most aspects of life in the community.
Spike Milligan was the first President, a post he held until his death in 2002.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Finchley Society
Harry Beck, designer of the 1933 London Underground map, lived here, 1936 - 1...
2017: The plaque is no longer here (our photograph of it was taken some years...
On this site stood Fallow Cottage, the home of Joseph Grimaldi, actor and fam...
From 1955 - 1974 Spike Milligan, comedian & author, lived at 127 Holden R...
Group which works for the regeneration of Portland Road and its surrounding area in Norwood, South London. It aims to achieve improvements for the benefit of the community.
Either the club or its Harrier section was established in 1904. Its origins are back in the 1880s when it was part of the sports section of the Woodford Green Working Mens' Institute. More inform...
Designed by Charles Fitzroy Doll. The picture was taken in 1913 after the completion of the extension, which is the section on the left, to the north (2017: we now think the 'extension' was into t...
This 1870 map shows that the land between Stoke Newington Common and Hackney Downs, to the east of where the railway was to be built, was entirely undeveloped and occupied by three large areas, eac...
Its aims are to preserve the environment and promotion of the amenities of Epping town and the immediate surrounding district.
