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Some local history publications
We are beginning to put together a list of local history publications. If you know of any other publications with useful information about Finchley's history please email the information to localhistory@finchleysociety.org.uk to that we can add it to the list. Click here for key to Godfrey Maps
| Author | Title | Publisher | Type | Copies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anon | La Societe de Marie Auxiliatrice 1954 | 1 | ||
| Anon |
The Landscape of Kenwood | English Heritage | C | 0 |
| Anon |
Kenwood The Iveagh Bequest | English Heritage | C | 0 |
| Anon |
Town Trails: various | Barnet Libraries | C | 0 |
| Anon |
East Finchley Cemetery | City of Westminster | C | 0 |
| Anon |
History, management & wildlife of Highgate Wood | Corporation of London | C | 0 |
| Argyle Book Company | Long Lane Dustjacket | 1 | ||
| Baker etc | VCH Hist of County of Middx Vol 6 | 1980 | B | |
| Banks C.O | Romances of Finchley Manor | 1929 | 5 | |
| Banks C.O. | The Early days of Finchley | 1927 | 3 | |
| Barker, Theo | Moving Millions | London Transport Museum 1990 | A | 0 |
| Barnard Philippa (ed) | The Blue Plaques of Barnet | 1973 | 2 | |
| Bellams | The Story of Hendon c1925 | 1 | ||
| Bernard, Philippa | The Blue Plaques of Barnet | HADAS | C | 0 |
| Biggers J.R | Finchley & the Neighbourhood 1903 | 1 | ||
| Bresler Lynn (ed) | Finchley Remembered | 2002 | 2 | |
| Brett - James Norman G. | Chroniclers of the Battle of Barnet | 1 | ||
| British Geological Survey | London & the Thames Valley | 4th edition, HMSO 1996 | A | 0 |
| Bryant, J & Colson, C | The Landscape of Kenwood | English Heritage 1990 | C | 0 |
| Carr Suzanne | Coaching Days in Barnet | 0 | ||
| Collins Alan | Finchley Vestry Minutes Part I | 3 | ||
| Collins Alan | Finchley Vestry Minutes 1768-1840 Part II | 1958 | 3 | |
| Davis Fred | The Finchley Charities 1488-1988 | 1988 | 2 | |
| Davis Fred | St Mary's School Finchley 1812 - 1990 | 1989 | 1 | |
| Davis Fred | A Short History of St Mary at Finchley | Barnet Libraries 1983 | C | 2 |
| Davis, Fred | Finchley Common: a notorious place | Barnet Libraries 1981 | C | 3 |
| Davis, Fred | Finchley Manor: influential families | Barnet Libraries 1982 | C | 1 |
| Dawson Percy G | Puget family in England | 1 | ||
| Farmer, Alan | Hampstead Heath | Historical Publications 1984 | B | 0 |
| Garland Ken | Mr Becks Underground Map | 1 | ||
| Gay, Ken | Palace on the Hill | Hornsey Historical Society 1992 | C | 0 |
| Gay, Ken | A History of Muswell Hill | Hornsey Historical Society 2000 | C | 0 |
| Gay, Ken | From Forest to Suburb | Hornsey Historical Society 1996 | C | 0 |
| Gay, Ken | History & Guide Muswell Hill | Tempus publishing 2002 | A | 0 |
| Gelder W.H. | Local Plays & Other Recollections | 1983 | 1 | |
| Gillies & Taylor | Hendon Childs Hill GG & Mill Hill | Phillimore 1993 | B | 0 |
| Gillies, S & Taylor, P | Finchley and Friern Barnet | Phillimore & Co 1992 | B | 0 |
| Gossett Sylvia | Finchley Methodist Church 1868-1997 | 1 | ||
| Grafton-Green Brigid | Money Milk & Millstones | 1976 | 1 | |
| Grafton-Green Brigid | Hampstead Garden Suburb 1907 -1977 | 1977 | 1 | |
| Grafton-Green Brigid | Milk for the Millions | 1983 | 2 | |
| Griffiths Diana | The Book of Totteridge 1992 | 1 | ||
| H.J. Butcher | St Mary the Virgin, Monken Hadley | 1 | ||
| Harley, Robert | Barnet and Finchley Tramways | Middleton Press 1997 | B | 0 |
| Heathfield, J & Reboul P | Finchley & Whetstone Past | Historical Publications 2001 | B | 1 |
| Henderson Roy | Postal History Barnet, Hertfordshire & Surrounding Districts 1642- 1971 | 1 | ||
| Hopkins John | A History of Hendon | 1964 | 1 | |
| Horne, M A C | The Northern Line: A short history | Douglas Rose 1987 | C | 0 |
| Ikin, C. W. | Hampstead Heath: How the Heath was saved | High Hill Press | C | 0 |
| Jenkinson Hilary | A Manual of Archive Administration | 1 | ||
| Kennett Wayland | Preservation 1972 | 1 | ||
| Landucci Graham | St Alban's Parish North Finchley 1903 -2003 | 2003 | 1 | |
| Latimer Dr Arthur | The Illustrated Story of Finchley | 1927? | 1 | |
| Lawrence G.R.P. | Village into Borough | 1953 | 4 | |
| Lawrence G.R.P. | Village into Borough | 1964 | B | 3 |
| Lloyd-Langton, Marion | To the manor born: 5 reasons to visit Hendon | C | 0 | |
| Matthews A.L.J | Alf's Memories Part 3 | 1975 | 1 | |
| Matthews A.L.J. | Alf's Memories Part 4 | 1976 | 3 | |
| Miller, M and Gray, S | Hampstead Garden Suburb | Phillimore & Co 1992 | B | 0 |
| Morgan Bryan | Acceleration - The Simms Story from 1891- 1964 | 1965 | 1 | |
| Murray, Ian | Haringey before our time | Hornsey Historical Society 1993 | C | 0 |
| Nixon St John C | The Simms Story from 1981 | 1 | ||
| Ordnance Survey | 2nd Ed Ordnance Survey Maps 1894-8 (See key) | Alan Godfrey | D | 0 |
| Ordnance Survey | 1st Ed 1822 Reprint to match Landranger | timeline maps | D | 0 |
| Passmore W.B. | Bygone Finchley 1768-1878 | 1905 | 1 | |
| Petrie, Hugh | Photographic Memories of Britain- North London | 2003 | 1 | |
| Phillips, John | Knights and (k)naves A Short History of the Parish of Friern Barnet London | 1967 | 1 | |
| Pinching & Dell | Haringey's Hidden Streams Revealed | Hornsey Historical Society | A | 0 |
| Radcliffe Clifford | Middlesex 1839-1939 | 2 | ||
| Radcliffe Clifford | Middlesex c1955 | 1 | ||
| Reboul P.& Heathfield J | Those Were The Days - Tales about the Borough of Barnet in Two Wars | 1980 | 3 | |
| Reboul P.& Heathfield J. | Days of Darkness. The London Borough of Barnet at War | Sutton publishing 2005 | A | 1 |
| Reboul P.& Heathfield J. | Teach Us This Day.The Origins & History of All Saints Cof E School Whetstone | 1 | ||
| Ordnance Survey | 1st edition of 1 inch Ordnance Survey Sheet 71 | David & Charles | D | 0 |
| Rice George | The Right Murder 1948 | 1 | ||
| Richards Fred | Hampstead (Pencil Sketches) 1916 | 1 | ||
| Sammes Edward (ed) | Victorian Jubilees | 1977 | 2 | |
| Satchell Kenneth B. | Memoirs of a Whetstonian 1907-2000 | 1 | ||
| Schwitzer, Joan, ed | People and Places | Hornsey Historical Society | A | 0 |
| Shillitoe Elizabeth H. | The Story of the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School for Girls Barnet 1588-1938 | 1 | ||
| Smeeton, C.S. | The Metropolitan Electric Tramways Vol 2 1921-1933 | 1986 | 1 | |
| Smeeton, C.S. | The Metropolitan Electric Tramways Volume I (Origins to1920) | 1 | ||
| Smith, David | Collected Memories of our Neighbourhood | Cromwell Hall Residents Assn 1999 | A |
1 |
| Smith, Clive | Down at the Old Bull And Bush | Allied Domecq | C | 0 |
| Smith, Clive | Finchley As It Was | CR Smith/Hillary Press | C | 3 |
| St Hill Bourne, Gladys | St Mary's Finchley Choir Class & Club 1903-1928 | 1930 | 2 | |
| Stephens, Henry | Parochial Self Government in Rural Districts 1893 | 1 | ||
| Stevenson, Bruce | Middlesex 1972 | 1 | ||
| Stokes, Malcolm | A Walk Along Ancient Boundaries in Kenwood | Hornsey Historical Society 1995 | C | 0 |
| Sullivan, David | The Westminster Corridor | Historical Publications 1994 | B | 0 |
| Summerson John | Kenwood | 1 | ||
| Taylor, Pamela | A place in time: LB Barnet up to 1500 | HADAS | 0 | |
| Thirkell John | 400 Glorious Pubs | 1 | ||
| Walford Edward | Greater London Volume 1 c1882-1884 | 1 | ||
| Walsh Martha | Life of Henry Stephens | 2 | ||
| Wells Peggy | Between Two Hedges - A Short History of Village Road 1908-1998 | 1 | ||
| Whiddon Harold | 100 Years Playing the Game History of Finchley Football Club1874-1974 | 2 | ||
| Whitehead, Jack | The Growth of Muswell Hill | Jack Whitehead 1995 | A | 0 |
| Wilmot, George | The Railway in Finchley | 1962 | 1 | |
| Wilmot, George | The Railway in Finchley (enlarged version) | 1973 | 1 | |
| British Geological Survey | 1:50 000 Series E & W Sheet 256, North London | British Geological Survey 1994 | D | 0 |
| Regional | ||||
| Ackroyd, Peter | London the biography | Chatto & Windus 2000 | A | 0 |
| Andrew, Martin | London Living Memories | Frith book co 2002 | B | 0 |
| Barker & Jackson | London 2000 years of a city & its people | Book Club Associates 1974 | B | 0 |
| Barton, Nicholas | The Lost Rivers of London | Historical Publications 1992 | B | 0 |
| Clout, Hugh | Mapping History of London | Times Books 2004 | B | 0 |
| Cook, Olive | Constable's Hampstead 1977 | 1 | ||
| Essex-Lopresti | Exploring the New River | Brewin Books 1998 | A | 0 |
| Gillies & Taylor | Hendon, Childs Hill GG & Mill Hill | Phillimore 1993 | B | 0 |
| Halliday, Stephen | Making the Metropolis Victorian London | Breedon Books 2003 | B | 0 |
| Porter, Roy | London a Social History | Hamish Hamilton 1994 | B | 0 |
| Protz, Chris | Tottenham Hornsey & Wood Green | Sutton Publishing 1998 | A | 0 |
| Richardson, John | Highgate Past | Phillimore 1989 | B | 0 |
| Rook, Tony | A History of Hertfordshire | Phillimore 1997 | B | 0 |
| Smith, Clive | Harrow As It Was | 1 | ||
| Smith, Clive | Hendon As It Was | 3 | ||
| Smith, Clive | Mill Hill As It Was | 3 | ||
| Smith, Clive | Golders Green As It Was | 1 | ||
| Smith, Clive | Flying at Hendon | 2 | ||
| Smith, Clive | Hampstead As It Was Volume I | 1 | ||
| Smith, Clive | Hampstead As It Was Volume II | 1 | ||
| Smith, Clive | Memories of Mill Hill | 1 | ||
| Smith, Clive | Down at The Old Bull and Bush | 1 | ||
| Thom, Colin | Researching London's Houses | Historical Publications 1992 | A | 0 |
| Trench & Hillman | London Under London subterranean guide | John Murray 1984 | B | 0 |
| National/background | ||||
| Beech & Mitchell | Maps for Family and local History | Public Record Office 2004 | A | 0 |
| Hindle, Paul | Maps for Historians | Phillimore 1998, 2002 | B | 0 |
| Richardson, John | The Local Historian's Encyclopedia | Historical Publications | B | 0 |
Key to type: A = Softback book, B: Hardback book, C: pamphlet, D: Map –
Number of copies held by Finchley Archives is indicated in final column