Liberal Bureaucracy (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
I've been the Returning Officer for Chipping Barnet for nearly a year now, and we've made... absolutely no progress at all. I've been busy, although that's no excuse. Perhaps I should get on with it...
ChurchCrawls (Free subscription) | 20/01/2008
St John the Baptist, Chipping Barnet - Butterfield's new church Originally uploaded by ChurchCrawler Butterfield's church (the C15 arcade can be glimpsed on the left)
ChurchCrawls (Free subscription) | 20/01/2008
St John the Baptist, Chipping Barnet - the old C15 nave Originally uploaded by ChurchCrawler 14th April 2007 and a trip to watch Barnet play Bristol Rovers. St John's Church stands in the fork of the main road at the top of the hill from the stadium at Underhill and the station, and from here appears entirely C19, and I guessed the work of William Butterfield (which it is!). However this is a medieval...
FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (Free subscription) | 04/12/2007
An invitation to a repast, circa 1992, aroundabouts Chipping Barnet - a haughty suburb of London, nestling at the brow of a glacial hill just a mile south of London's famed mega car park, the legendary M25. "Susan", and her socially submissive boyfriend had indeed invited YT around on bonfire night, for a "sumptuous feast" comprising je ne sais quois? - to be honest. I'd met the the somewhat oddball...
London Walks (Free subscription) | 24/11/2007
Jean takes us to the top of that Cresta Run that swoops down to London Town - but, unlike Dick Whittington , we will not 'turn again' to the City, but to Chipping Barnet - the Market town - Barnet Fair, notorious Costermongers' Carnival; Barnet's Battle, where the King of the White Rose overcame the Kingmaker of the Red; Barnet's Benevolence - almshouses for 'ancient women' so they be not beggars,...
LibDem Blogs (Free subscription) | 13/08/2007
It was with great sadness that I heard last night of the untimely death of Lord Garden, who died on August 9th at the age of 63. Tim Garden was diagnosed with incurable cancer a few weeks before his death. Only a few months ago Tim came to speak to Chipping Barnet Liberal Democrats about foreign and defence policy. We had a great evening and he answered questions with great authority and knowledge...
Railway Eye (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Are civil servants in other departments losing faith in DfT's oft disputed claim that there will be 1,300 new rail vehicles? This parliamentary exchange from the 25th November: Theresa Villiers (Shadow Secretary of State for Transport, Transport; Chipping Barnet, Conservative) Hansard source " To ask the Secretary of State for Transport of the 1,300 new carriages referred to in the 2007 Rail White...
