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.
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Finchley Society
Near this site was situated a toll gate abolished in 1871. The Finchley Society
Joseph Grimaldi Joseph Grimaldi was born in 1778 in London. His father was a...
Harry Beck, designer of the 1933 London Underground map, lived here, 1936 - 1...
2017: The plaque is no longer here (our photograph was taken 2008), We have c...
Sir Walter Besant was the first president and the local historians Thomas Barratt and G. W. Potter were members. A London Inheritance has found evidence of its existence up to 1940.
Member of Kingston Spiritualist Church in 1927.
Used to meet at The Coal Hole in the Strand. In about 1826 Edmund Kean was a leading founder member. Qualification for membership: being forbidden by your wife to sing in the bath. So the club ch...
Depending on different sources, it is the oldest, or second oldest lodge in the Craft Province of Masonry.
A parishioner or member of the congregation of St Matthias, N16, who died in WW1.
Settlement work in Liverpool then London, National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, edited Common Cause, Church League for Women’s Suffrage, preacher, pacifist, later campaigned for ordination ...
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