Welcome What the Finchley Now?! It's like buses - none for ages and then two wins from two community groups. After the Regents Park Road Bus Lane success, this week North Finchley Campaigners saved the Lido at Great North Leisure Park. This week we've got great local choirs and a reinvigorated Hampstead Theatre. 🎤 9 Finchley Choirs for fearless fortissimo Image courtesy of Rock Choir (obv) Exploring your New Year’s resolutions? Seeking a feel-good change: join one of these 9 local choirs and...
10 days ago • 6 min read
Welcome Top tips on where to get your season tree locally. Plus 6,062 locals have signed the petition to stop Regal's plans for the Great North Leisure Park and Finchley Lido - want to join them? Scroll down. And read more about Kenwood's Double Vision: Vermeer at Kenwood. Mind-blowing. 🎄🌲3 Spots for Christmas Trees Image: Markus Spikse Whatever your tradition, there’s something magical about the tinsel-and-fairy-lights season. If you’re getting a Christmas tree or seasonal bush, we’ve got a...
17 days ago • 7 min read
Welcome This week, we look at 3 of Finchley's oldest roads, and you'll find out why (and where) we were front page news. 🚧 Finchley's Oldest Roads Ballards Lane in 1965 | Image from Francis Firth Most of us hurry down Ballards Lane or pop around Church End without a second thought. But these familiar routes are much older than they look - in fact, a few of Finchley’s streets can trace their origins back nearly 700 years. Next time you’re out and about, consider this walk through local time...
24 days ago • 6 min read
Welcome You probably heard the whoops across Finchley on Friday morning when locals heard that Barnet Council has wisely reversed the unsafe Bus Lane changes. Congrats to all our local activists - let's see what we can take on next?! Also a great micro-museum celebrating a Finchley artist. 🚌 Regents Park Road Bus Lane Win Quite a philosophical question: the bus lane is not in operation, but still use it? Barnet Council has officially scrapped the controversial Regents Park Road bus lane – and...
about 1 month ago • 7 min read
Welcome Off the back of the RHS Space to Grow report we've got a great list of local community gardening and green projects. And great news for the artsdepot! Scroll down to read all about it. 🪴Blooming Beyond Barnet: 4 Local Projects Let's get blooming, FInchley and Barnet Image: Nicholas Sorenti The RHS’s Space to Grow report is the first national map of community gardening - and it shows the movement is blooming nationally, not just in Finchley. An estimated 2.5 million people have pitched...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
Welcome This week we're in celebrity overdrive with 5 people who live... a stones' throw from Finchley. And a cool new community cafe project for us all to support, The Finch. 🏛 5 Hampstead Hotshot Home Owners Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig... just some regular North Londoners 1: Harry StylesHampstead’s most famous modern resident, Harry Styles, began buying homes there in 2012 — and now owns a mini-compound of neighbouring houses. Far from hiding away, he’s often seen pedalling a Lime bike...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
Welcome Happy Divali to all our local celebrants, and Happy Halloween. Also seen some great local decorations. Have your trick-or-treat-sweets at the ready. This week, 14 local rock stars, and the final Antiques Roadshow episode. 🎵14 Finchley Musicians Rock The Scene The late, great, George Michael For six decades and more, musicians have been living and working in all the Finchleys - North, East, West, and Church End. Turns out Finchley is some kind of musical nexus. Here are 14 connections...
about 2 months ago • 7 min read
Welcome This week we've got a cool roundup of local independents to fix-up your shoes, clothes, watches... anything. And are driverless cars coming to Finchley? Finally, a quick reminder to sign the petition to roll-back the dangerous bus lane changes on Regents Park Road (between Henley's Corner and East End Road / Gravel Hill). 👩🔧 The Finchley FIx-It List Cobblers, tailors, watchmakers - no candlestick makers From worn soles to split seams, Finchley’s fix-it heroes keep our stuff - and...
about 2 months ago • 7 min read
Welcome Great wintry walks and the local Halloween lowdown this week. Also, if you live near or use Regents Park Road between Henley's Corner and East End Road / Gravel Hill, you have probably seen the (temporarily paused) potentially dangerous changes to the bus lane. This is an important local safety issue. There are currently 1,557 signatories to the petition asking for it to be reverted. Please sign it - once it gets to 2,000, we can officially say "thousands of locals want it rolled...
2 months ago • 7 min read