Culture
Pinner – An Act Of Remembrance
Pinner War Memorial High Street, Pinner, Middlesex, Select a Country:PLHS – “The Woodbridges in Harrow and Pinner”
Pinner Village Hall Chapel Lane, Pinner, Middlesex, United KingdomAt 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…
Carols By Tourchlight
Pinner War Memorial High Street, Pinner, Middlesex, Select a Country:Pinner Local History Society – 2000 Years of Traffic Signs
Pinner Village Hall Chapel Lane, Pinner, Middlesex, United KingdomSpeaker - Simon Morgan Visitors are very welcome (suggested donation £3). Pinner Local History Society begins 2024 with an intriguing talk by Simon Morgan, ‘2000 years of Traffic Signs’. Simon chairs the Ruislip Local History Society and is chair of the BSI committee that is responsible for traffic signs. He was asked by the Department…
Come And Sing with Harrow Harmony
South Harrow Methodist Church Walton Avenue, South HarrowPinner Local History Society – Pinner’s Place in Metroland.
Pinner Village Hall Chapel Lane, Pinner, Middlesex, United KingdomTitle - Pinner’s Place in Metroland". Speaker - PLHS Research Group. Our Research Group will present new research into the origins, development and people that make up Pinner’s place in Metroland. Please come early as it will be popular and encourage your friends too (suggested donation of £3).
Expert Talk – “Good Faries and Bold Buccaneers: The Art Rivival of Toy Theatre in the early twentieth centryry”
Heath Robinson Museum 50 West End Lane, Pinner, United KingdomEx
Modernist Magazine Illustration
Heath Robinson Museum 50 West End Lane, Pinner, United KingdomWith the start of the Second World War in 1914 Heath Robinson observed that “There was now no demand for purely artistic productions, for new editions of Shakespeare or other classics”. He was then dependent on humorous work for his income. However, from about 1925 respite from the constant need to be funny came from…
Modernist Magazine Illustration
Heath Robinson Museum 50 West End Lane, Pinner, United KingdomWith the start of the Second World War in 1914 Heath Robinson observed that “There was now no demand for purely artistic productions, for new editions of Shakespeare or other classics”. He was then dependent on humorous work for his income. However, from about 1925 respite from the constant need to be funny came from…