Fifty-two years ago
One of the big attractions at the Hendon Show was a baseball match between the Edgware Wildcats and De Havilland Comets side and an American team, the Bovingdon Lobos, from Bovingdon, Hertfordshire.

The rules of the game mystified many people, although Harry Fisher, of Southfields, Hendon, claimed that baseball originated in England.

- Members of the Kingsbury branch of the British Legion organised a children's coronation party to take place well after the event, so that Kingsbury kids would have something to look forward to after the actual coronation. As a result, 150 children enjoyed the fun, which others in the district had experienced nearly two months before.

Twenty-six years ago
Michael Byrne wrote a letter to this newspaper agreeing with Sir Harold Wilson's description of the Rhodesian Patriotic Front Leader, Robert Mugabe as a 'terrorist' and 'racialist'. "Last year, Mugabe's men slaughtered several members of my church in Rhodesia - and to think that he has been invited to London for talks! No doubt the Provisional IRA is next on Mrs Thatcher's invitation list," he said.

- Special arrangements were made at Edgware General Hospital to enable a former policeman to be married three days before he died. Charlie Dawson, who had worked at Hendon Police Station for many years, had been waiting three years for an annulment of his first marriage.