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Local newspapers available at the Local Studies Centre The following newspapers are available to view on microfilm: Barnet Gazette - December 1851-1861, 20 March 1869 Barnet Press - 1861 to date Hendon & Finchley Times - 1876 to date Finchley Press - 1895-1960 Edgware Post - 1945-1991 (continued as Borehamwood Times)

Spring Term 2022

The area of Fallow Corner was recorded in 1429. By the 18th century there was a small hamlet of houses next to Cobley Farm. The access roads from the corner to the main road formed the distinct bow shape of Bow Road we see today. The clown Joseph Grimaldi lived here (1806-1827) and it was while ghostwriting Grimaldi's memoirs (1836 and 1837) that Charles Dickens probably first stayed at the farm.