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The Sternberg Centre for Judaism, in East End Road, Finchley, London, is a campus hosting a number of Jewish institutions, built around the 18th-century Finchley manor house. It was founded to facilitate a number of Reform and Liberal Jewish institutions, attached to the Movement for Reform Judaism (previously Reform Synagogues of Great Britain ...
The Spike Milligan memorial bench in the garden of Avenue House in Finchley. Spike Milligan lived locally for many years up to his death in 2002. He was the first President of the Finchley Society. For a decade after his death the Society, led by Barbara Warren, raised funds – the Spike Milligan Statue Fund – to commission a statue of Spike.
The rector of Finchley, Thomas Reader White, refused to renew the lease on the house and the inn did not move to its present location as the New Queen’s Head, in East End Road until the 1860s. White renamed the buildings Finchley Hall and used it to house a school of the same name which later became Christ's College Finchley .
Finchley has four London Underground stations, all on the High Barnet branch of the Northern line, which serves the West End and City (financial district). East Finchley in zone three, serves East Finchley and is 21 minutes from Charing Cross. Finchley Central in zone four, serves Finchley, Church End and is 25 minutes from Charing Cross.
East Finchley (East End) was first mentioned in 1365, when it formed a scattered hamlet, but by 1860 it was the most populous part of Finchley. Badly bombed during World War 2 , and with the subsequent rebuilding, the street pattern of the Old Village was destroyed.
Also close by on West End Lane are C11, 31, 46, 139, 328 and 603 bus stops. Local night buses are N113 . The redevelopment plans include a proposal to add a new entrance from the site to the Finchley Road tube station, potentially including making the station fully accessible.
The order moved to East End house in 1864, and in 1873 the building became a reformatory for former female prisoners. The convent was largely destroyed in a fire in 1972 and the grounds were redeveloped into Bishop Douglas School in 1963 and the Thomas More Estate in 1980.
St Anne's House is a grade II listed building in East End Road, East Finchley, London. The house was built in the early nineteenth century with mid century additions. The house was built in the early nineteenth century with mid century additions.