The tweets of the week in the London Borough of Barnet 3rd September 2023

 Firstly, I've neglected this feature over the last three weeks. If you've not followed the blog, this is due to being rather tired following my radical prostatectomy procedure on the 9th August and also a weekend trip to France to recuperate with my wife that turned into a whole week, thanks to air traffic control and Easyjet. What should have been a two hour flight Nice morphed into a 15 hour train journey involving a sleeper to Paris and the Eurostar to St Pancras. But hey ho, I'm back and here we go.

1. Lets start with some wonderful local history from our friends at the Mill Hill Historical society

Colindale, November 1929: two trolley buses, a motor lorry and a hay cart are involved in a crash, with the trolley bus overturning, lucky no one was hurt!

For hundreds of years the hay carts ferried hay down the Edgware Road to London and brought back horse dung for the fields pic.twitter.com/tIeNamkXRh

— Mill Hill Hist Soc (@MHHistSoc) September 1, 2023

2. Another nice thread from @time_nw

Edgware British Railways (Great Northern) Station, in the mid-1950s. By this time, it had ceased to be used for passengers. The buildings in the distance are on Station Road, and to the right beyond the tree, another pie e of lost Edgware...

UK Photo Prints. pic.twitter.com/F1CjmAVUHG

— NW London TimeMachine (@time_nw) August 30, 2023

3. Looks like a good production here

#summerschool Fully staged, off book, note perfect, and hilarious. All achieved in a whistlestop week! Bravi tutti, that was amazing. Kudos and huge thanks to @graceconductor @bexger @jenny_perry and the music staff and chaperones 👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/q9oe8gsOZN

— Finchley Children's Music Group (@fcmgchoir) September 2, 2023

4. We are big fans of the Phoenix!

#NationalCinemaDay #Saturdaycinema The wonderful Phoenix Cinema East Finchley. Opened in 1911 as the Picturedrome (Arch S. Birdwood) & in continuous use ever since. Externally it has been remodelled but the interior unchanged since 1938. @Artdecomagpie pic.twitter.com/OA3fHFlyRz

— Elizabeth May (@LizzieHelenMay) September 2, 2023

5. More excellent tweeting

Good morning! My #artdeco post today is East Finchley Underground Station. Opened 3/7/1939 Originally designed by Bucknell & Ellis, with some revisions by Charles Holden. The Archer sculpture is by Eric Aumonier #streamlined #moderne #architecture #photography #london pic.twitter.com/e4B1miumyI

— Paul Smith (@PaulzSmith1) August 27, 2023

6. We love Mill Hill Observatory

Scopes on Screen: still more from Midsomer Murders' "Written in the Stars". Cameo appearance by one of the Celestron 14s at UCL's Mill Hill Observatory near London (possibly the same one students used to find SN 2014J in M82?) #TelescopeTuesday (400th in a weekly series!) pic.twitter.com/BUMfyKO92g

— William Keel (@NGC3314) August 29, 2023

7. Some tweets just have to be included

Arthur Hesth doing a headstand in Cricklewood (1930) pic.twitter.com/7FcNLBU0RC

— Old School UK (@OldSchoolUK) September 2, 2023

8.A date for your diary

It's back, the Cricklewood reunion. Also celebrating Trades Hall being part of #Cricklewood for over 100 years.
Saturday 30th September 2023 12pm - 12am (children, accompanied by an adult, 12pm - 7pm).

Anyone who has ever had any connection with Cricklewood is more than welcome. pic.twitter.com/7RxSVagl6P

— NW2 Res Association (@NW2_RA) September 1, 2023

9. A very good question, who would you choose?

Our favourite famous Mill Hill resident. Who is yours? pic.twitter.com/Q2XNCzFVtA

— A Better Mill Hill 🔸🌈🇬🇧🇪🇺 (@ABetterMillHill) September 3, 2023

10. A nice touch

A minute’s silence for the father of Isaac Stones who very sadly passed away this week, our thoughts are with Isaac and his family pic.twitter.com/DRVgCNrTqI

— Hadley FC (@hadleyfc) September 2, 2023

And finally, please join myself and The False Dots at The Dublin Castle for some Ska music to celebrate my recovery from recent sugery for Prostate cancer. CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS

This is what we sound like!