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The Friern Barnet Photo Archive
The Minstrel Boy, 156 Colney Hatch LanePhotographed on 17 February 2007
Picture added on 21 September 2009 at 11:15
I remember the pub being built - my gran was worried there would be drunken hordes going past our house on their way back to the council estate at the top of the road at chucking out time! There used to be a timber yard on the site.
Added by Tony van der Spiegel on 29 May 2018