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The Friern Barnet Photo Archive
No: 261 Contributor: Friern Barnet & District Local History Society Year: 1958 District: North Finchley
Robert Deards
"Know Your Finchley 1958"
Picture added on 06 November 2009 at 09:58
I believe it was Deards 'Thames Trader' tipper lorries which, by the hundreds in the late 50's-60's, gradually filled the wasteland which became the Muswell Hill Playing Fields. As a youngster, I used to watch them from my Nan's garden which backed onto the land.
Added by Peter Chaplin on 04 November 2024
North Finchley
