Year: 2016

 

This  is the unused car park in Waxwell Lane (snapped on 19 August) on which the Council intends to build.
If you object to this development sign the petition at Hilton’s or at other shops.

 

There will be a new series of craft workshops for adults coming on stream this September – booking is essential:

[email protected]

 

This new series follows the highly successful workshops initiated in July this year at the Upstairs Gallery, West House, Pinner Memorial Park. They  include tuition by expert practitioners and all materials as well as food and drink (hot drinks and cake in the day time, Prosecco or soft drinks and mezze in the evenings..). The workshops are aimed at adults from 16 years plus and can be booked as one off workshops or as a series.

 

The two new workshops are first, Monday 5th September on Book Art and, second, Thursday evening 1st September focussing on Jewellery Making. The posters attached (in different formats) provide further information about them.

 

Quotes from those attending the first Cocktail and Crafts evening workshop in July working with “mixed media on stretch canvasses” included:

“A great evening with work to take home”

 ” Great that everything was provided as well as lots of ideas. It was also good that there was a spread of ages   who attended”.

“Loved trying out new techniques and the staff were nice and helfpul”

” Thoroughly enjoyable evening. Lots of help to make our pictures and ideas to develop our thoughts. And lots of lovely resources”.

“Very relaxed atmosphere, lots of resources. Nice seeing examples first to serve as inspiration and lovey Mediterranean Mezze”.

An example of one of the collages from this workshop is attached (last attachment)

 

Future Cocktail and Craft workshops  at 7-9pm on the firstThursday evening of every month planned are

Napkin Decoupage in October,

Art prints using a new gel method in November

Willow Weaving in December.

 

Some quotes from the earlier Coffee and Craft workshop “experimenting with Water Colours” included:

” Time just flew”

“A good range of materials to experiment with. Friendly and knowledgeable teacher and lovely cakes!”

“”Really relaxing, warm, fun environment – really enjoyed it despite not having picked up a paint brush for years”.

 

Future Coffee and Craft workshops are planned for the first Monday mornings of every month, 11-1pm,  between September and December. They include:

Print/collage (artist book)

Textiles and print (tea towels)

Monoprinting ( art prints)

Christmas Decorations (dry felting)

 

Claire Linge, the new William Heath Robinson Museum’s Learning officer can provide further pictures of past workshops showing everyone pitching in and having a good time if this would be helpful to you – her email is attached.

 

(PS Claire, I could not find your email of 4th August where you had sent me other photos so thought this- suggesting you could provide them-  was the best solution.  I leave for  France first thing tomorrow morning and wanted to get this out for you before I left, hence including your name on this – if you feel it would help, do just send some of them some of your photos of the earlier workshops).

 

With good wishes,

Ruth McNeil

Press officer

Mobile: 07721 564 994

 

The West House and Heath Robinson Museum Trust West House Pinner Memorial Park West End Lane Pinner

HA5 1AE

 

www.westhousepinner.com

www.heathrobinsonmuseum.org

 

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@hrobinsonmuseum

 

 

The 2016 Band Cconcerts,raised a0ver £2300 for West House. The fine weather  assured us of good audiences  and hence the  bucket collections raised over £400 more than last year. All the concerts were greatly appreciated by the capacity audiences. They deserved to be.

 

 

 

 

One of our members happened to find out what is going on when visiting the Post Office today that the ‘Consultation’ period to consider the move has already begun. Opening on 27 July it extends to 14 September, the proposed month of change being November.
Paper copies of the details of the proposed move are available at the Post Office.

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we have now arranged a customer forum drop in session to allow local residents and customers to speak to representatives of the Post Office about our proposal for Pinner Crown Post Office:

 

Date: 16^th August

Location: Pinner Methodist Church, Love Lane, Pinner, HA5 3EE

Time: 3.30pm – 7.30pm

 

Please feel free to pass on to anyone interested in attending.

 

As part their move to improve cycle security across the Capital, Harrow Safer Transport Team, part of the Transport for London (TfL) funded Metropolitan Police Service Safer Transport Command, are offering free security marking and registration on the MPS preferred database, BikeRegister.com.

 

Security marking your bike deters potential thieves as your bike can be easily traced if it is stolen.

 

It would normally cost approximately £20 to have this done via the internet. We are offering this service completely FREE with BikeRegister.com.

 

To get your bike marked please attend The Bike Shop, 511 Pinner Road (next to Tesco Express), North Harrow this Saturday 23rd July between 10:30am – 3:45pm.

 

On 23 June gloom descended on Pinner in the form of  of the very heavy rainfall in the evening. Not only was Chapel Lane awash, but so was Marsh Road too.

The Council has circulated this pamphlet to launch a ‘Consultation’ on the “Sympathetic Development” of  Waxwell Lane Car park to deliver “a valuable contribution to the Village Centre”, not whether or not it should be retained as as Car Park.   This car park has become more heavily used in recent months.  The  web site reference on the poster tells you no more than ‘Watch this space’.  Obviously the development of the site would swell the Council’s coffers, but at the expense of the livelihood of local businesses which it currently serves and to the detriment of those living locally. Don’t miss this opportunity to ‘consult’.

The Pinner Association is getting an increasing number of reports from Pinner residents and businesses about problems with rats in gardens and around waste bins, etc..  We understand that Harrow Council is liaising with the Environment Agency about the control of the number of rats living in and around the River Pinn, and is also advising businesses in central Pinner about the control of these vermin.  The advice from the Harrow Council Environmental Health Team Leader about the action to take should anyone be having problems with rats is contained in their “Pest Control Leaflet” as follows:

A proliferation of cycle racks now adorns Pinner, but are they proving popular? Some seem to prefer the traditional lamp post.