How's your week been? Mine has been pretty spiffing! Last night I saw one of the best gigs I've seen in a very long time. The legendary Average White Band at The Royal Festival Hall, who definitely still have it and can get even the most sedate of venues audiences on their feet.
The Average White Band at the @londonjazzfest at the @royalfestivalhall cooking up a storm https://t.co/WhmGpTuaA1
— Roger Tichborne/RogTπΈ (@Barneteye) November 20, 2021
On Friday I saw Joe Stilgoe at Pizza Express at Soho and tonight it's my old mate Zoe Rahman at Frith Manner school. All of these are part of the rather amazing London Jazz Festival. That's enough of me, what have the Tweeters of the London Borough of Barnet been up to?
1. I have a rule that I don't use this feature for making political points and I don't feature tweets from outside of the Borough of Barnet, but I will break it today. I saw this tweet and I was genuinely thrilled to see that Burnt Oak Market was returning. I then noticed that it wasn't the Burnt Oak market we all know and love. It was being staged by Harrow on their side of Burnt Oak High Street and rather oddly, they don't appear to be working with Barnet Council, who run the other side of the road. Really? Why can't these two organisations get together and make a proper event and when will we see a return of the real Burnt Oak market, that was the centre of the Burnt Oak community for decades. I'd love to see Barnet Council using it to encourage young entrepreneurs to start small businesses. Many of our best loved retailers started out as market stalls. Rant over
Burnt Oak ‘Welcome Back’ Winter Market: Call for Traders
— Harrow Council (@harrow_council) November 19, 2021
Harrow council has been awarded funding to support the return to high streets safely and help build back better from the pandemic.
It will be free for local businesses to have a stall.https://t.co/qScpKdzcSq pic.twitter.com/fD0VEVPeUe
2. I think this is a wonderful picture of the former BR station at Edgware in 1956. This is now the Broadwalk shopping centre. It was a real act of vandalism to remove the link between Edgware and Mill Hill East and not encorporate it into the Northern Line. If it was open today, there would be a station at the StoneX stadium, negateing the need for a fleet of diesel powered buses to get the fans to the stadium, it would provide a useful interchange with Thameslink at Mill Hill and make travel across the Borough of Barnet far more straightforward.
Have a good weekend folks after a really tough week. Here’s a photo posted by Paul Booth on The LNER Society FB page of a Gresley N2 at Edgware BR station on 05/05/1956 with a railtour. The station closed to pax in 1939 but goods trains served Edgware well into the 1960s. pic.twitter.com/D0kSiq49ky
— Simon “Kinematic” K (@SimonZev) November 20, 2021
3. IS this the worst and most dangerous bit of driving we have recorded on our local twitter feeds?
Had to share this with you all
— Inside Mill Hill (@InsideMillHill) November 16, 2021
This was posted on our @facebook page by Karin Ilsen
What are the chances this could happen to me twice?Maybe its a Mill Hill/Hendon thing Please note the sound has been removed so no one hears my bad language this time#millhill #betterinmillhill pic.twitter.com/VZDhBvyYkU
4. Did you know that bombers were made in Cricklewood in 1942? You do now!
The tail surfaces being fitted to Halifax II Series I W7656 at Handley Page's plant at Cricklewood, London, March 1942. pic.twitter.com/aMv9uOjADb
— Ron Eisele (@ron_eisele) November 17, 2021
5. Whilst we are in that neck of the woods, A major campaign to move freight from road to rail was recently launched in Cricklewood
Recently, DB Cargo UK launched a major new campaign to encourage modal shift from road to rail.
— DB Cargo UK (@DBCargoUK) November 17, 2021
The campaign was launched to rail industry stakeholders at the official opening of DB Cargo UK’s new £7m rail freight terminal in Cricklewood, North London.#freightbelongsonrail pic.twitter.com/XYCSXbbq62
6. Always enjoy contributions from Reel Streets
On the platform at East Finchley station in London N2, this Passenger is about to become the next of Mackenzie Crook's tally towards 'Three and Out'. pic.twitter.com/UwxXHqr3IG
— ReelStreets (@ReelStreets) November 19, 2021
7. I'm gutted I missed this, it looked wonderful!
East Finchley … still running till the 28th pic.twitter.com/1ia4KeaAJc
— William KWAKU AMO (@WilliamKWAKUAMO) November 19, 2021
8. MR Amies has us very worried there for a minute. Not in Barnet, but a favourite post match dinner venue for many Barnet FC fans. I've been going since 1982. The slow cooked lamb shank is to die for, you have to order it 24 hours before.
As if by magic! This morning the signage is back. https://t.co/HKT953p2LD pic.twitter.com/KJaIGxo9Tx
— Mark Amies (@Superfast72) November 21, 2021
9. We love the Welsh Harpies, you get to meet some really fun guys if you join them! (groan)
Two glorious storeys of glistening inky cap mushrooms at the #welshharp today #fungi pic.twitter.com/TQS5LIlnzH
— Friends of the Welsh Harp (@welshharpies) November 20, 2021
10. Nice!
Our favourite ever set of @RoyalMail stamps. Make sure you see our Bowie tribute wall next time you #record or #rehearse pic.twitter.com/xgEKxKLWeB
— #MillHillMusicComplex (@MillHillMusicCo) November 21, 2021
That's all folks
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