When you hear the borough of 'Barnet' mentioned in conversation, what do you think of?

What words, pictures, or memories come to mind?

We have come up with a list of 12 thing you may or may not know about the borough..

Have a read and if you want to add any quirky facts we haven’t included, feel free to send them to us.

1.      Charles Dickens decided naïve little Oliver Twist would meet his pal the artful Dodger in Barnet High Street

2.      And it is believed that Mr Dickens used to drink at the Red Lion pub on Barnet Hill

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3.      An old Barnet coaching stop saw 150 coaches pass through every day

4.      Did you know High Barnet was actually founded by monks from St Albans Abbey back in the 12 century…. And was they called it ‘Bernet’

5.       Scottish Congregationalist David Livingstone lived in Barnet, and he is number 44 of 71 people throughout history to appear on The Beatles’ famous St Peppers album

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6.      According to Oxford dictionary, from rhyming slang Barnet fair is the name of a famous horse fair held at Barnet, Hertfordshire

7. Queen Elizabeth School for boys is the oldest in the borough as it dates back to 1573

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8. The Golders Green name comes from a family called Godyere who lived there. Green alludes to the waste on which the area was built on

9. England 1966 world cup winning team spent the night before the big match watching ‘Those magnificent men in those flying machines’ in Hendon cinema

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10. Finchley was chosen as the area where the funniest joke in the world was set, according to Monty Python's Flying Circus comedy sketch.

11. Home of Barnet FC, but Hadley FC was founded in 1882 and is known as Barnet's oldest club 

12. Barnet is twinned with 9 cities across the world, including Barnet in Vermont, Jinja in Uganda and Tempelhof-Schöneberg, in Berlin, Germany.