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David Ian Berguer (born October 1939) is a British
His career was in media management in the advertising industry. He retired in 2000 and at that time was one of the founders of the Friern Barnet and District Local History Society. His first book was ''Under the Wires at Tally Ho'', an examination of the trams and trolleybuses that once served the area of Finchley in north London.
This was followed by ''The Friern Hospital Story'', which examined the complete history of the former Colney Hatch Asylum, later known as Friern Hospital, from its design and opening in 1851 to its closure in 1993, and subsequent conversion to flats known as Princess Park Manor. In 2014 the book was named by the Friern Barnet & District Local History Society has put together a book about the Barnet Home Front during World War One.
Rosy Moorhead, Times Series, 27 March 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2017. In 2016, he produced ''Whetstone Revealed'' with John Heathfield.
local historian
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and author, and the chairman of the Friern Barnet and District Local History Society. His books include ''The Friern Hospital Story'' (2012), the story of the former Colney Hatch Asylum.
Writing
His career was in media management in the advertising industry. He retired in 2000 and at that time was one of the founders of the Friern Barnet and District Local History Society. His first book was ''Under the Wires at Tally Ho'', an examination of the trams and trolleybuses that once served the area of Finchley in north London.
This was followed by ''The Friern Hospital Story'', which examined the complete history of the former Colney Hatch Asylum, later known as Friern Hospital, from its design and opening in 1851 to its closure in 1993, and subsequent conversion to flats known as Princess Park Manor. In 2014 the book was named by the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society
The London and Middlesex Archaeological Society (LAMAS) is a society founded in 1855 for the study of the archaeology and local history of the City of London and the historic county of Middlesex. It also takes an interest in districts that were h ...
the best single topic publication written by a member of their 55 affiliated local history societies.
In 2014, Berguer produced ''All over by Christmas'', an examination of conditions on the home front in Barnet during the First World War for which he and a team trawled local newspapers from the wartime period to extract the source material. He originally thought the book would be short but there was so much information available that the final work was nearly 300 pages long.Rosy Moorhead, Times Series, 27 March 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2017. In 2016, he produced ''Whetstone Revealed'' with John Heathfield.
Selected publications
*''Under the Wires at Tally Ho: Trams and Trolleybuses of North London, 1905-1962''. The History Press, Stroud, 2011. *''The Friern Hospital Story''. Chaville Press, London, 2012. *''All over by Christmas''. Chaville Press, London, 2014. *''Whetstone Revealed''. Chaville Press, London, 2016. (With John Heathfield)See also
*The Tally Ho, Finchley
The Tally Ho is a public house in north Finchley, north London, under the management of the Stonegate Pub Company.
History
The pub was built in 1927 on a wedge-shaped plot where Ballards Lane in the west meets the High Road ( Great North Road) ...
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Berguer, David Living people 1939 births Historians of Middlesex Finchley Friern Barnet Whetstone, London