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The oldest building in Friern Barnet is St James' Anglican church. Rebuilt in 1853, the 12th-century south doorway is the only part of the original church. St. James's Church of England primary school, formerly Friern Barnet National school, replaced the charity school in 1853.

Until the 1820s the Great North Road came into Barnet through the small Victoria Lane, which runs down the side of the Graseby House building part of Barnet College. The lane is now cut short, but it used to run down to the Red Lion at Underhill. The road was an important military route to the port of Holyhead and Ireland. From 1818 a new straighter road was constructed on the embankment we see today, which was less steep. The new road allowed armies to move more swiftly along it.

The manor house, now the Sternberg Centre, was built in 1723 by the Allens. Bibbesworth, Finchley's original manor house (c1253), was destroyed by fire in the 15th and 16th centuries. Of the original building only a ditch, possibly a moat, remains.

The Edgware Road was originally a Roman road, which the Saxons called Watling Street. It may be that Burnt Oak was the location of a small settlement known to have been on the Edgware Road called Sulloniacis. In 1971 an excavation of Roman rubbish pits in the garden of a house in Thirlby Road found coins dating from the 3rd and 4th centuries. Unfortunately as the area was completely built over during the 1920s and 1930s it is unlikely that we will learn much more.

Delivering for Barnet will see a huge investment in improving homes and neighbourhoods, town centres, infrastructure and commun

The items that are collected together in your recycling bins are taken to a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF). The different materials are separated both by hand and through mechanical processes. They are then transported to different re-processors both in the UK and abroad to be made into new materials such as newspapers, plastic packaging and cans.

The Chipping Barnet Town Centre Strategy goes beyond the adopted Spires Planning Framework  in focusing on the wider issues facing the town centre including:

Reusable nappies If you are a parent living in the London Borough of Barnet with children who are less than 18 months old, or are a parent-to-be, you can save money and help the environment by applying for a free reusable nappy voucher worth £70 through Real Nappies for London.

We have surveyed how people drive in Barnet, allowing us to identify  traffic hotspots. As a result, we will be monitoring them with CCTV to help improve safety, keep traffic moving and reduce air pollution on the borough’s roads. Here are three places in Barnet we will be monitoring for driving offences: Zigzags at Deansbrook Infants School