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East Barnet maps
Historic maps of East Barnet and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all East Barnet maps
East Barnet photos
We have no photos of East Barnet, although we do have photos of these nearby places:
Cockfosters| Southgate| Oakwood| Friern Barnet| Barnet| High Barnet| Palmers Green| Totteridge| Winchmore Hill| Hadley| Grange Park| North Finchley| Finchley| Whetstone| Wood Green| East Finchley| Bush Hill| Bush Hill Park| Hornsey| Forty Hill| Crouch End| Highgate| Temple Fortune| Hendon| West Hendon| Enfield| Edmonton| Potters Bar| Muswell Hill| Tottenham
East Barnet area books
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Memories of East Barnet
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East Barnet Village 1958 +
A 14 year old brought to the top of Longmore Avenue from the Thanet beaches! Cycling down to the village - walking with bike back up after the first third - so steep the gradient! Peter, Edna, June and Douglas Last's greengrocers open to the pavement, always with smiles for all! Tennis in Church Hill Park - a summer of torrential rain every day - dodging the showers returning to the courts from shelter! The woods at the top of the park for great hide and seek - even at that age - visiting cousins sharing the fun of family parties. Mum's homemade sausage rolls, quiche, whipped cream strawberry flans. Dad's music. The Essoldo Cinema - a regular 'must'! Another enormous walk up Cat Hill to Cockfosters and Oakwood for the best of coffee bars. The village nestling in a pretty valley with nice houses on hilly tree-line roads rising towards Barnet and Whetstone. Easy trips to London from Oakleigh Park Station.... Read more
St Mary's School And Church Hall
I was born and grew up in East Barnet and went to St, Mary's C of E Junior and Mixed Infants School in Churchill Road. It was a small school with only four classes and the boys left at seven and mostly went to Littlegrove. The headmistress was Miss Banham, who we all feared, though she must have been a very good teacher as she had the top two years in one classroom, and managed to get 18 out of 21 pupils through the scholarship (later 11-plus). There was no dining-room so those who had school dinners had to walk along Churchill Road to the Church Hall. The dinners were pretty ghastly, with gristly meat, lumpy mashed potatoes and lumpy custard. The back of the school backed on to the playground which made a good big wall for ball games. We did a lot of skipping and hop-scotch.In the late 40s, the BBC Schools programme began something called Music and Movement, and we went along to the Methodist Church Hall... Read more
Hertfordshire memories
Oakmere
I have found a painting of Oakmere House, Potters Bar dated 1935. I believe the house is now a Beefburger Resaurant. There is a clearer view of the house from across the lake, there is the large pine tree & smaller trees on the right of photp, the trees & bushes on the left have not yet grown. It is an interesting painting relating to a modern photo. I can be contacted on 07752033574 if you are interested.
Oakmere House
I am trying to find out any info on Oakmere house.
Was it a Convelecent/hospice in the 1950's?
I may have had a relative that stayed there in the past and would be grateful for any info.
Oakmere House
As a young boy, together with some of my friends we went fishing in the lower lake and one winter, 1938 or 1939, we went ice skating on the lower lake. In those days I lived in Park Avenue. Also, during the Second World War, Oakmere House held dances. I went to one or two when on leave. I think that the owners of the estate, pre-Second World War, were named Forbes. After the war the park was open to the public.
The Ritz Cinama
At the end of Darkes Lane, on the corner of Byng Drive, the Ritz Cinema was built and opened in 1934. My father was the cinema foreman from then until 1939. It had an elevated organ and songs were played on it with the words displayed on the cinema screen. In spite of numerous air raid warnings, as far as I know, it never closed. The National Anthem was always played at the end of the evenings show.
The cinema was eventually closed and converted into a supermarket.
The Potters Bar
Before 'The Potters Bar' was built, the site was occupied by 'The Railway Hotel', a red brick building. This was demolished in the 1930s and replaced by the present building and called 'The Potters Bar Hotel'. This pub was very popular during the days of the Second World War, with sing-songs and amateur entertainers mostly on a Saturday night. It was also very popular with the American forces stationed nearby.
