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Train marks Tube line centenary

All aboard: Tube staff wear 1907 dress on the Northern Line's Centenary celebration special trains

11:20am Wednesday 27th June 2007

Golders Green was one of 15 London Tube stations celebrating the Northern Line's 100th birthday on Friday.

Poverty with a Twist

Special occasion: Barnet Workhouse dressed to celebrate the coronation of Edward VII in 1902

11:49am Wednesday 13th June 2007

As the contents of today's newspapers, radio and television programmes show, there is never any shortage of people prepared to moan and complain about their lot on nearly every subject under the sun, be it an annual holiday, or the latest electronic toy at Christmas.

Dying to be famous

Tragedy: actress Lillian Hall-Davis, who cut her own throat, and Henry Victor, in the film Tommy Atkins

3:28pm Wednesday 6th June 2007

In this age of instant celebrity it is more apparent than ever that people crave the fame and fortune that comes from being a movie star.

Marjie's movie memories are star turn for studio heritage

Star-struck: Film star Patti Morgan, in period costume, walked past as this

1:22pm Friday 1st June 2007

Elstree group to put photos of the golden days of film industry on its website for us all to enjoy.

Don't worry, it'll ride up with wear

I'm free! Stars of Are You Being Served?, filmed at Elstree in 1977

10:52am Wednesday 9th May 2007

In the Seventies, TV programmes were making successful leaps onto the silver screen. PAUL WELSH takes a look and says 'you've all done very well.' This week we have a potpourri of news to entertain and enthral you.

Always in fashion

Open for business: Staff outside a Wallis & Co. shop in Gravesend, in 1927.

1:30pm Tuesday 17th April 2007

MIRIAM CRAIG meets the man who turned Wallis into one of the leading womenswear stores of the past 50 years.

Not all were demob happy

7:56pm Wednesday 15th November 2006

This month sees the annual commemoration to the dead of two world wars and subsequent conflicts. Times Group historians PERCY REBOUL and JOHN HEATHFIELD look at what became of people when the First World War ended

A proud history of pulling pints

4:27pm Thursday 27th July 2006

Times Group historians PERCY REBOUL and JOHN HEATHFIELD look back at the history of pubs in the area.

Ancient art of brewing

Engrave dangers: this engraving by William Hogarth, entitled Gin Lane, highlighted the dangers of the craze for drinking strong, cheap gin in the mid-1700s

12:42pm Thursday 29th June 2006

Times Group historians PERCY REBOUL and JOHN HEATHFIELD recall the rise of brewing and pubs in Barnet

The fastest stagecoach in town

In the post: this 1825 picture shows the mail coach changing horses at the White Lion in East Finchley. The pub shown here was rebuilt in 1938 and was popular with carters, who took the locally grown hay crops to London

2:43pm Monday 22nd May 2006

Times Group historians PERCY REBOUL and JOHN HEATHFIELD look back at the time when stagecoaches were a way of life The great days of the horse-drawn vehicle have long since passed and so have many of the organisations that served their needs the inns, stables, ostlers, blacksmiths and the like.

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