Historic Barnet
edited by W H Gelder
Muir's Bookshop, Barnet, 1984
[a "3rd edition" dated 1985 appears to be a reprinting with minor amendments]
Contents
In the Beginning
Chipping Barnet through the centuries
The Great North Road
Barnet Parish Church and other churches
Barnet inns and Alehouses
The Battle of Barnet
East Barnet from 1539 to 1850
Tudor Hall: Barnet's old Grammar School
Barnet Fair
Barnet Physic Well
The Byngs of Wrotham Park
Elizabeth Allen School
Barnet's Theatre
Leaves from a Workhouse register
From Workhouse to Wellhouse
Barnet General Hospital
The story of Barnet Press
How Barnet got its railway
East Barnet after the railway
Some Barnet shops in 1917
There is a web page for Barnet
Locating
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