TRIAL WEBSITE: History
We have put together this part of the website to help further understand the breadth of history in our town. We’d love you to explore it, check it, question it, and tell us what’s missing. You can email us at history@lovebarnet.co.uk
Post-Office Books
Baines: Forty Years At the Post Office Baines: On the Track of the Mail coach Harper: The Holyhead Road; the mail-coach road to Dublin Harper: Half-hours with Highwaymen The Great North Road Harper: The Holyhead Road Directory of Stage Coach Services 1836 (for map) Post Office & the Great Fire of London Postal History, Roy Henderson The Penny Post 1680-1918 (Vale)
Written by Barnet-born postal official F. E. Baines, these volumes trace the rise of the mail coach and the Post Office – often citing Barnet’s pivotal position on the Great North Road.