Old place names like Tinkers Bottom (now Strawberry Vale) and Irish Corner show that Gypsies have been stopping at Finchley for hundreds of years
Seen in 1804 there were a number of private schools in Finchley. Finchley Common was so extensive that this view could be anywhere from Whetstone to East Finchley.
This view shows the church before the substantial extension of 1872 and the rebuild in 1950 after the church was bombed in the war
