The Tweets of the week in the London Borough of Barnet - 22/03/2020

Our policy for this feature is no politics and no Covid-19 tweets, no empty supermarket shelves and no scare stories. We want this to be a little bit of light in a sad and lonely season. There have been easier weeks to put the feature together!

But we have managed to find a few gems, so here you go!


1. I suspect that the last sane rational tweet that will appear on Twitter before the meteorite strikes and wipes us all out will be from @Time_NW, one of our favourite accounts

Getting ready for the green.

Traffic at Hendon Central, 1974.

Another great image from @memorieshendon pic.twitter.com/pLntYOOAwA

— NW London TimeMachine (@time_nw) March 19, 2020

2. And a great historical tweet from the Mill HilL Historical society

Oil painting of an aircraft factory floor in The Hyde in Hendon in 1918. Painted by war artist Anna Airy.

It is a "Aircraft Manufacturing Company" erecting shop with DH 9 planes.https://t.co/aJMarxAWkC

Image from @I_W_M : https://t.co/tyqxTUMM6O pic.twitter.com/algoJ726ur

— Mill Hill Hist Soc (@MHHistSoc) March 21, 2020

3. Want to see the tube line from Finsbury Park to Edgware reopened? If you do, then sign this petition!

Reopen the Finsbury Park - Edgware Railway - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/zTmCx9qLXh via @UKChange

— Nathaniel Dodd (@njparkmore1) March 20, 2020

4. This looks like a fun account, good to follow at times like these

07:40 CELEBRITY CRAZY CRICKET IN THE 50s - Filmed in Edgware featuring #RichardHearne #JonPertwee #TommyCooper batting in his fez, #EdmundoRos and many more. pic.twitter.com/dXxQecQtEa

— Talking Pictures TV (@TalkingPicsTV) March 20, 2020

5. There are some new train sidings at Cricklewood, opening soon to allow completion of the New Brent Cross station

5 new sidings pic.twitter.com/LGYDkjOpUq

— Robin Morel (@13milepost) March 19, 2020

6. If like me, you enjoy a walk across The Totteridge Valley, you'll enjoy Samuel Levy's latest tweet! We did the walk yesterday and have never seen so many people out for a stroll, all impeccably behaved and self isolating sensibly

Day 8 of a photo a day:
Today has been all about migrating reports over the Totteridge Valley. With these 4 Red Kites up together over Long Pond. I was also pleased to see the first Lamb of the Spring at Folly Farm. #londonbirds #solaceinnature pic.twitter.com/aQSN4Nc9wh

— Samuel Levy (@FinchleyBirder) March 22, 2020

7. In need of some spiritual uplifting?

SERMON for 4th Sunday in Lent (22nd March) https://t.co/R22h9Cc4oM pic.twitter.com/Wecn4Mgw6r

— St Mary-at-Finchley (@StMarysFinchley) March 22, 2020

8. and some words of sense from our local Rabbi in Mill Hill

Don't Pass Over Passover!https://t.co/JPPH0NrYmK

— Yitzchak Schochet (@RabbiYYS) March 22, 2020

9. Peter Walker is a great friend of this blog, our thoughts and prayers are with him, his family and his guinea pigs! Get well soon Peter

Tell the guinea pigs that Peter Walker, their slave, has had an operation to widen some arteries and to remove blockages, so he will be home in a few days. He will have an operation on the other side in 4 months. #guineapig #guineapigs #cavy #cavies #swinkamorska #swinkimorski pic.twitter.com/SNvlf505m3

— Peter Walker (@writelaws) March 22, 2020

10. Here's a doggy to cheer you up!

Looks like the studio has gone to the dogs! Met this chatty happy whilst opening up pic.twitter.com/Wxo378RNke

— #MillHillMusicComplex (@MillHillMusicCo) March 22, 2020

That's all folks