Car Hire North Finchley

Car Hire – North Finchley, London

The Car Hire Company offers car hire delivery and collection services to the home counties of London along the M25 London ring road and we can deliver further upon request. We offer quality car hire services for a value price.

North Finchley Local Information

In 1462, North End was what is now North Finchley and Whetstone. In 1627, a windmill and house was built – this became an inn by 1722 and by 1754 the mill had ceased to operate and the inn had taken over (the site is now a Police garage).

In 1756, North Finchley became a junction, when the end of Ballards Lane was connected up to the High Road, then called the Great North Road. In 1814 there was a beer house selling gunpowder and shot near the junction.

Finchley Common has been linked to the Highwayman Dick Turpin (and others) and a large oak that stood in Oak Lane opposite the Saint Pancras and Islington Cemetery was known as Turpin’s Oak from the 1830s until 1952. In 1816, when the common was enclosed, North Finchley began to develop into more of an urban area and some say the closing of the common signalled the end of the Highwaymen.

In the 1830s, a coaching company by the name Tally Ho based their horses at the junction, and the name stuck. Drive through Tally Ho in your car hire and picture what it would have been like many years ago. During the 1930s, Ballard Lane ended where the Purple Rain Bar is today, was replaced by a new road (the Kingsway). In 1937 the Gaumont Cinema was built on the space created by this new road, although this was demolished in 1987 and in 2004 an arts depot opened.

North Finchley is located in the borough of Barnet, with its centre being tally Ho Corner – the junction of three main roads. North Finchley is mainly residential with Victorian (cottages to large double fronted) and Edwardian houses.

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