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Other websites covering the London Borough of Barnet are:
BARNET LOCAL STUDIES & ARCHIVES
BARNET MUSEUM
THE FINCHLEY SOCIETY
HENDON & DISTRICT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
FRIERN BARNET & WHETSTONE RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION
FRIENDS OF FRIARY PARK
MILL HILL HISTORICAL SOCIETY
The Friern Barnet Photo Archive
North Finchley Library, Ravensdale Avenue
The library was built in 1936 at a cost of £10,000. Photograph taken on 7 December 2007
Picture added on 17 December 2009 at 15:29
I lived at No 4 Ravensdale Avenue, just opposite the library, from when I was born in 1937 until 1956, when I went off to do my National Service. I went to school in Comrie House School, photographs of which are elsewhere in this archive, and later to Christ's College. I well remember some of the buildings in this archive - the Gaumont cinema, the Tally Ho pub, Finchley Memorial Hospital where I had my appendix out, and the 521/621 trolleybuses. It is amazing how clear some of these memories are
Added by John Snow on 18 February 2023
North Finchley
