Group    From 1971 

Finchley Society

Categories: Community / Clubs

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

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Finchley Toll Gate

Near this site was situated a toll gate abolished in 1871. The Finchley Society

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Grimaldi - N12 - information panel

Joseph Grimaldi Joseph Grimaldi was born in 1778 in London. His father was a...

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Harry Beck - N12

Harry Beck, designer of the 1933 London Underground map, lived here, 1936 - 1...

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Henry Charles Stephens - plaque

2017: The plaque is no longer here (our photograph was taken 2008), We have c...

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Jean Scott

In memory of Jean Scott (1921 - 93) founder of The Finchley Society.

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Other Subjects

Anderton's Hotel

Anderton's Hotel

In the fifteenth century this was the Horn tavern. In the early seventeenth century the hotel was popular with the legal community. A new building was erected in 1880, probably the one in this phot...

Building, Commerce, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink

1 memorial
Guild of the Royal Hospital of St Bartholomew

Guild of the Royal Hospital of St Bartholomew

The Guild is a voluntary organisation that supports the work of the hospital. It provides equipment and comforts for the benefit of patients and staff through the income raised by the work of volun...

Group, Community / Clubs, Medicine

2 memorials
Maureen Davies and the wild women of Wapping

Maureen Davies and the wild women of Wapping

Ran a vigorous campaign in the 1980s.  Set up the Turk's Head Company, a charity to improve local life, bought the derelict building from the Council and restored it. From the picture source: " It...

Group, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Anglo-Finnish Society

Anglo-Finnish Society

From their website: "The Anglo-Finnish Society is the oldest Finland related voluntary organisation in the UK. Non-political and non-profit making, the Society fosters cultural and social relations...

Group, Community / Clubs, Finland

1 memorial
First purpose built nurses' home in London

First purpose built nurses' home in London

The Henriette Raphael Building at Guy's Hospital.

Place, Community / Clubs, Medicine

1 memorial