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Illustrating the Grotesque

Heath Robinson Museum 50 West End Lane, Pinner

Following the success of Uncle Lubin (1902), Heath Robinson was commissioned to illustrate The Works of Rabelais. These portray a bleak landscape largely peopled by grotesque peasants and priests whose lives are dominated by fear and superstition and who can find relief only in drunkenness and debauchery.

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PLHS – “The Woodbridges in Harrow and Pinner”

Pinner Village Hall Chapel Lane, Pinner

  At our next talk is the story of a family of local builders. Stephen, Joseph, and Charles Woodbridge moved to Harrow and Pinner shortly after 1800 and were soon building small wooden cottages. Charles, in Pinner, became so successful that his son Jason acquired one of its grandest houses, Pinner House. Susan will talk…