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Child performance licensing Child performance licensing form for applicants or parents who require a Child Performance Licence for a child or young person to be able to work in film, television, theatre or modelling.

Local factory owners Everett and Edgecumbe experimented at Colindale with a plane, nicknamed the Grasshopper, between 1908 and 1910. Sadly the plane never got airborne. In 1910 the Daily Mail newspaper staged a flying race to Manchester. Louis Paulhan, a Frenchman, flew from Colindale and succeeded in winning the competition. It was the first flight from Hendon.

At the very north western corner of the London Borough of Barnet north of Edgware on the A5 is Brockley Hill. 'Brock' is an old word for badger, and ley was used to describe an opening in the woods. Brockley Hill is well known as the site of a Roman settlement

The population statistics for Edgware are consistent, but only include the area of the old parish of Edgware. The area called the Hale is popularly associated with Edgware, but those statistics were included within those of Mill Hill for at least a century. Before the late 1920s Burnt Oak's population was so small that it was included with those of the Hyde in Hendon.

The Burroughs was called the Burrows from 1316 until the 1890s, and took its name from local rabbit warrens. An unnamed Tudor inn, with its own brewery, provided refreshments for travellers. This inn may have been the White Bear, so called from at least 1736. Here the lord of the manor held his court until at least 1916. The present pub was built in 1932.

Friern Barnet's Coat of Arms was granted to Friern Barnet in October 1938, while Finchley's coat of arms was granted in July 1933. The different parts of the shields and their supporters (the animals on either side) represent different parts of these two areas' history.

Application to perform a hypnotism act in public. A hypnotism licence authorises an exhibition, demonstration or performance of hypnotism on any living person in connection with an entertainment to which the public are admitted. Eligibility criteria Any person may apply to the licensing authority for a hypnotism licence. Regulation summary Hypnotism Act 1952

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Woodside House is possibly a medieval property, but certainly known by 1699. By the 1800s it was called Woodside farm. In April 1872 the station opened and in June, 45 acres of the Woodside estate were sold as 'Torrington Park', part of the Woodside Estate.