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September 2023
Rock Around The Block at Mill Green Watermill
This exhibition explores over half a century of popular music in and around Hatfield from the 1930s through to the 1970s. Throughout the 20th Century the area grew as new businesses settled in the town and after the Second World War it was identified for expansion as one of a series of ‘new towns’. Alongside this growth came an expanding musical community ready to embrace the changing world of pop and rock music and dancing. We’ll explore how new venues sprung up to meet the needs of the community and how that community would also produce a range of talented…
Find out more »Rock Around The Block at Mill Green Watermill
This exhibition explores over half a century of popular music in and around Hatfield from the 1930s through to the 1970s. Throughout the 20th Century the area grew as new businesses settled in the town and after the Second World War it was identified for expansion as one of a series of ‘new towns’. Alongside this growth came an expanding musical community ready to embrace the changing world of pop and rock music and dancing. We’ll explore how new venues sprung up to meet the needs of the community and how that community would also produce a range of talented…
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Barnet Physic Well
Barnet Physic Well open to the public. Free entry. The physic well is on the corner of Well Approach and Pepys Crescent. Please be aware that the Physic Well is in a relatively small room underground and is reached by steep stone steps. Barnet’s Physic Well is a mineral water spring which was thought to have therapeutic qualities. It was popular from the later seventeenth century through the eighteenth century, and its visitors included Samuel Pepys, who wrote about the visit in his diary.
Find out more »October 2023
Borehamwood and Elstree Studios: A Guided Walk
Borehamwood and Elstree are synonymous with cinema studios, and this is a fun guided walk through their past and present. We won't be able to go into the studios, but you'll hear a huuuuge amount about them, and about the history of cinema, and lots of world-famous actors and directors who worked there. And of course, I'll be sharing some anecdotes about their experiences filming here. If you're coming from Barnet, you can get to the meeting point on the 107 bus. With Paul Baker, City of London guide. £12, £5 under 12s
Find out more »Enfield Chace: The Making of a Man-Made Landscape by John Leatherdale
The Local History Society organises regular lectures on a variety of topics. Talks are not only about Barnet, but also about wider interests. Talks are held at St John the Baptist Church. (Wood Street, EN5 4BW) Talks begin at 3pm (unless stated otherwise) and are approximately 45 minutes long. Talks are £2 or free to members of Barnet Museum and Local History Society.
Find out more »In the Footsteps of the Famous in High Barnet: a Guided Walk
Royalty, Prime Ministers, Dickens, Trollope, Thackeray, Pepys, Kingsley Amis, John Betjeman, Spike Milligan, J.M.W. Turner, Wesley, Livingstone, and many, many others: they’ve all stayed or lived in High Barnet and Monken Hadley over the past 500 years, and got their feet under the table of history. We'll meet them all in the course of this fun and informative two-hour walk. With Paul Baker, City of London guide. £12, £5 under 12s
Find out more »Mill Green Museum – Windrush at 75
Join us to Celebrate Black History in Welwyn Hatfield. Spend your afternoon learning about the 75th anniversary of Windrush, discovering local Black History and trying delicious Caribbean food. Mama Cynth food stall: A Taste of the Caribbean. A chance to see our temporary exhibition, Windrush@75 which runs from 5-29 October. No Ordinary Book Shop Mobile Museum: Exhibition in the Study Area. And More.... Timings: 12 noon- 5pm. Come along anytime during the afternoon. Last entry at 3pm. Cost: £5.60 per adult, £1.70 per child. Mill tour and activities included.
Find out more »Family History Research Help with LWMFHS
Need help with some research? Want to look up something on a website that you don’t usually subscribe to? Come along to the local family history society's Barnet group meeting and get help and advice. Bring a laptop or tablet if you can and make use of the free WiFi. £2.00, free to LWMFHS members
Find out more »Barnet Physic Well
Barnet Physic Well open to the public. Free entry. The physic well is on the corner of Well Approach and Pepys Crescent. Please be aware that the Physic Well is in a relatively small room underground and is reached by steep stone steps. Barnet’s Physic Well is a mineral water spring which was thought to have therapeutic qualities. It was popular from the later seventeenth century through the eighteenth century, and its visitors included Samuel Pepys, who wrote about the visit in his diary.
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