The Diary of Nathaniel Bryceson (Part 6)

[Siamese Girl]

No entries for the 9th and 10th of September which is very disappointing. I wonder if Nathaniel is either too busy to write in his diary, or nothing has happened that he feels is worth writing about OR he just can't be bothered ... 

I have days like that - my diary is littered with entries which read "nuffin much"

Carole

[Ruskie]

No entries for the 9th and 10th of September which is very disappointing. I wonder if Nathaniel is either too busy to write in his diary, or nothing has happened that he feels is worth writing about OR he just can't be bothered ... 

I have days like that - my diary is littered with entries which read "nuffin much"

Carole

 

[Mongibello]

The Greyhound pub is still there and the Church, pub and Church Farmhouse make a fine group today.  The farmhouse is the Barnet Borough Museum.

London borough of Barnet must, I suspect have more than one museum, as the one im familiar with is in Wood St, Chipping Barnet.

The Hendon one is official & the Chipping Barnet on is a semi private venture

[steve_gus]

A google search shows the Wood Street museum as the original, founded in the 1930's where the "church farmhouse museum" was opened 20 years later in 1955.

http://www.barnetmuseum.co.uk/

http://www.barnet.gov.uk/index/leisure-culture/museums-galleries/churchfarmhouse-history.htm

Looks as you say that barnet council seem to promote the farmhouse one and have the wood st as run by a local society. First page of the wood st link seems to promote an interesting looking diary....

[Mongibello]

A google search shows the Wood Street museum as the original, founded in the 1930's where the "church farmhouse museum" was opened 20 years later in 1955.

http://www.barnetmuseum.co.uk/

http://www.barnet.gov.uk/index/leisure-culture/museums-galleries/churchfarmhouse-history.htm

Looks as you say that barnet council seem to promote the farmhouse one and have the wood st as run by a local society. First page of the wood st link seems to promote an interesting looking diary....

Of course up to 1965 Hendon and Barnet were separate boroughs with Finchley in between

[steve_gus]

Ive contacted you by messager off line Mongibello as dont want to bore others

Todays post looks like a bit of juicy financial scandal. I cant imagine a bank not wanting your money   Perhaps this is the start of the slippery slide for the business. With the recent cost of the gas installation you would expect they were doing well......

[Ruskie]

Oooh yes, a nice bit of gossip today.

Does anyone know why the bank wouldn't take the money?

I love the way Nathaniel says of the bridge: "... it looketh quite a wreck..." 

[Siamese Girl]

I'm mystifyed as to why a bank wouldn't want to take money  The London and Westminster Bank has quite a complicated history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Bank and still (kind of) exists today as NatWest - ironically their big advertising push these days is that they provide "helpful banking". Mr Lea would probably disagree.

Carole

[drykid]

I cant imagine a bank not wanting your money

Well I do remember that when I first started working as a contractor, I had to open a new business account to pay my first paycheque into (since the cheque was in the name of my new limited company.) And to my amazement the bank that held my personal account refused to allow me to open a business account to pay the cheque into (because I had an existing consolidation loan with them and they refused to allow me to open a new account until that was cleared.)  So in the end I had to open a business account with a totally different bank just to be able to pay the cheque in, which annoyed me no end.

Although it's not really comparable with what Nat's describing, since if I'd already had a business account then no doubt they would've accepted the money.  I guess banking in those days was a more personal affair, and therefore more subject to the whims of the people concerned, so maybe this kind of thing was par for the course.