The Tweets of the Week in the London Borough of Barnet - Revisited

 For around ten years, I used to do a feature every Sunday called The Tweets of the Week in the London Borough of Barnet. When it started, it was extremely popular, thousands of views every week and I connected with a whole bunch of wonderful people, some of whom I now consider friends. I did a set sequence of searches as well as keeping a note of any good tweets throughout the week. When Elon Musk took over twitter, the number of interesting factual tweets and great pictures dropped. It got to the point where I couldn't find enough interesting content to fill the slot. Elon Musk also limited the number of results that you got, meaning searches revealed nothing. Once I realised what was going on, I decided that it wasn't worth promoting his platform.

In the week, I had a chat with one of my former regulars, Mark Amies. I mentioned that I rarely look at Twitter now, there is little of interest. After our chat, I thought I'd have a look. Was there anything worth Posting?  The searches I used to do were all related to neighbourhoods in Barnet. I'd search Mill Hill, Edgware, Burnt Oak, Finchley, Golders Green Brent Cross, Colindale, Hendon and Cricklewood. 

So lets see -

  Mill Hill - A nice thread of posts from the Mill Hill Hostorical Society. 

The White Hart on Edgware High Street

A surviving relic from the 1600s and the days of the coaching inn routes

It is the last of Edgware's old pubs but has survived (I have even visited) but it is no longer a pub and has been much neglected in recent years. pic.twitter.com/CpBxTw55wi

— Mill Hill Hist Soc (@MHHistSoc) August 14, 2024

Edgware - This would definitely be featured, Mark Amie still chasing the demise of the Railway pub in Edgware. Sadly Labour replacing the Tories in Barnet has made no difference at all

@BarnetCouncil & @HistoricEngland just what is going on at grade 2 listed Railway Hotel, Edgware? For the last few months there appears to be a rug selling business on the ground floor. Is Ballymore buying it as part of the Edgware Town Centre development? #railwayhoteledgware pic.twitter.com/ybRicvYItE

— Superfast 72 (@Superfast72) September 1, 2024

Barnet - Nice!

Wars of the Roses fiction
https://t.co/kxi6DUaXFi Richard III's childhood
https://t.co/2Z9DgYsZd8 Richard's youth
https://t.co/ZTJJnnOExr Burgundian exile
https://t.co/FHYlxzCk6x Richard's life Barnet to Bosworth; Buckingham's tale pic.twitter.com/Hv1dZoRtnL

— J.P. ReedmanHistfic (@stonehenge2500) August 28, 2024

Burnt Oak - A notable anniversay a couple of weeks ago, a great tweet

ON THIS DAY: 100 years ago, the @TfL Northern Line extended from Hendon Central to #Edgware via Colindale (Burnt Oak was a little late to the party in October 1924). Here's a selection of beautiful posters extolling the new suburb's virtues courtesy of @ltmuseum pic.twitter.com/kgJAMmUdlb

— Joe Brown (@JoeBrownLondon) August 18, 2024

Finchley - This is right up my street, I'll watch this later!

UFOs in North Finchley https://t.co/fiqcLFwHQU via @YouTube

— Byron Vyronos-Science, Religion and Philosophy2013 (@SeraphimA25256) September 1, 2024

Golders Green - Just the type of stuff that I started using Twitter to see.

David Bowie music show to play Golders Green Hippodrome - Ham & High - https://t.co/35rZSuCfsb #GoogleAlerts

— DAVID BOWIE REALITY (@dbfaceofreality) September 1, 2024

Brent Cross - The only search that threw up nothing of much interest to me

Colindale - Sadly the Colindale Folk club is no longer in Colindale, but it's still in the Borough of Barnet

Fri 20th Sept. Linda Moylan @MusicMoylan will be performing at @ColindaleFolk @TheBullTheatre https://t.co/GKZYOv7pjz. Tickets from https://t.co/KwMmzkmpk7 The floor spots start at 8:00 p.m. pic.twitter.com/a88GEFoxpp

— Colindale Barnet Folk Club (@ColindaleFolk) September 2, 2024

Hendon - Congratulations to Hendon on progressing to the next round of the FA cup.

FULL-TIME: Hendon 3-0 Whitehawk #IsthmianLeague pic.twitter.com/2ntlynTDcR

— Whitehawk FC (@HawksFCOfficial) August 31, 2024

Cricklewood - I didn't know Phil Lynott had a flat in Cricklewood, fine tweeting here. Also loved the Caty Delmot tweet.

Nancy Spungen and Sid Vicious at
Phil Lynott's house, Cricklewood, North London, England, 1978.
📸 Chalkie Davies pic.twitter.com/WulBU1n1zW

— Graham (@Gracro5) August 25, 2024

Thanks to local artist, Caty Delmot for restoring her artwork in #Cricklewood Lane with Dahlias, 1 lamb, cats, flowers of the grass, grass seed heads to cover the graffiti this weekend. pic.twitter.com/LEqEF147dG

— NW2 Res Association (@NW2_RA) September 2, 2024

So there you go. It seems that there is life on Twitter still and some good stuff out there. Was I too hasty? I will monitor for a couple of weeks.

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