Finchley
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Finchley is a place in the London Borough of Barnet, London, England. Finchley is predominantly a residential area with a number of retail districts.
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[edit] Location and divisions
Situated in the north of London, Finchley is divided into four:
- East Finchley, roughly speaking, the area between Highgate and the North Circular Road, and in postal area N2;
- Church End Finchley, often known as "Finchley Central", the area west of the North Circular Road, centred around Ballards Lane and Finchley Central tube station, and in postal area N3;
- West Finchley, the area around West Finchley tube station, and in postal area N3; and
- North Finchley, the area surrounding Tally-Ho Corner, stretching west to Woodside Park and the Northern Line, in postal area N12.
'Finchley' should not be confused with the area of London known as 'Finchley Road' around Finchley Road tube station in Swiss Cottage, Camden.
[edit] Culture and sports
The Phoenix Cinema is one of the oldest purpose-built cinemas in the UK. It has an active local arts scene which is publicised by Barnet Borough Arts Council with the Arts Depot based in North Finchley opened in Autumn 2004.
Finchley's local football team is Wingate & Finchley who play in the Southern League Eastern Division. It was founded as a specifically Jewish football club in 1946. The local rugby team is Finchley RFC.
Finchley's community orchestra is Tudor Orchestra which rehearses at Trinity Church Centre N12 close to the Tally Ho bus terminus on Monday nights.
Finchley Cinevideo Society (FCS) is one of the country's oldest movie-making clubs - founded in 1930. It still meets weekly in North Finchley. [1]
Finchley Games Club meets every Thursday evening to play board games, role-playing, collectible card games, etc.
Victoria Park is a park alongside Ballards Lane. (Turn right out of Finchley Central Tube station and stroll along Ballards Lane for five minutes.) It was opened in 1902 and was intended to mark Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee and was Finchley's first Public Park.
[edit] History
Finchley was from 1959 to 1992 the Parliamentary constituency of Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990.
Since 1963 Finchley has been twinned with Jinja, Uganda.
[edit] See also
[edit] Famous people associated with Finchley
- Fleur Adcock, poet
- Harry Beck, Designer of the original Tube map
- Emma Bunton, singer
- Charles Dickens, novelist
- Samantha Fox, UK model and singer
- Robert Fripp, musician
- Octavia Hill, social reformer
- David Jason, Actor
- Stephen Merchant, Actor/Director/Writer/Comedian
- George Michael, singer and songwriter
- Eric Morecambe, comedian
- Tim Parks, novelist (his semi-autobiographical Tongues of Flame is set in the North Finchley of 1968).
- Anna Popplewell, Movie actress
- Will Self, novelist, reviewer and columnist
- Feargal Sharkey, singer
- Jerry Springer, born at East Finchley Station during the war
- Steven Stapleton, musician
- Owen Suffolk, Australian bush-ranger - born in Finchley
- Margaret Thatcher, Local M.P. and Prime Minister.
- Terry-Thomas, actor
- Tamás Vásáry, pianist and conductor.
[edit] Fictional characters
- Bluebottle, a character in the 1950s BBC radio series The Goon Show, hails from Finchley.
- In the 2005 film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Susan Pevensie says that she and her siblings, Peter, Edmund, and Lucy, are from Finchley, despite no mention of Finchley being made in C. S. Lewis's book. Anna Popplewell, the actress who plays Susan, is from Finchley in real life.
[edit] Nearest places
Nearest tube stations:
- East Finchley tube station
- Finchley Central tube station
- Mill Hill East tube station
- West Finchley tube station
- Woodside Park tube station
- Totteridge and Whetstone tube station
All the above stations are on the Northern Line of the London Underground system.
[edit] External links
- Michael Pead :: Photos of Finchley - includes pictures of the new Arts Depot.
PeterVideo 15:56, 25 March 2007 (UTC)Petervideo
