The Pinner Association

Heath Robinson’s Shakespeare Illustrations
2023-03-02 11:00 - 16:00, 2023-02-26 11:00 - 16:00, 2023-02-25 11:00 - 16:00, 2023-02-24 11:00 - 16:00, 2023-02-23 11:00 - 16:00, 2023-02-19 11:00 - 16:00, 2023-02-18 11:00 - 16:00, 2023-02-17 11:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) and 12 more dates | Heath Robinson Museum, 50 West End Lane, Pinner, HA5 1AE, United Kingdom
The 31st May 2022 will be the 150th anniversary of the birth of William Heath Robinson. He was trained as an artist at the Royal Academy Schools, and as past exhibitions at the Museum have shown, he was a great illustrator and a highly accomplished painter in watercolours, but it is as a humorous artist that he is best known. To mark this important anniversary, we shall be exhibiting a selection of his cartoons representing the wide range of his subjects and spanning his humorous output from 1905 to 1943.
During two World Wars he deployed irony and satire to counter German propaganda and to bring a little mirth into the otherwise painful lives of servicemen and civilians. Both greatly appreciated his efforts. A similar dry humour was used to satirise the pomposity and fussiness of those who took themselves too seriously. He was modest and gentle, qualities that shine through in his humour.
As a review of his memorial exhibition in the Times in 1945 commented, “What may be unexpected in this exhibition is the fineness of Heath Robinson’s craftsmanship – the clean and firm fluency of his pen line and the quality of his watercolour washes. Those who have known his work only in reproduction will be surprised at its technical excellence.”
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WOS Productions Present "The Drowsy Chaperone"
2023-02-25 19:45 - 22:00, 2023-02-25 14:30 - 17:00, 2023-02-24 19:45 - 22:00, 2023-02-23 19:45 - 22:00, 2023-02-22 19:45 - 22:00 | Winston Churchill Theatre, Pinn Way, Ruislip, HA4 7QL, United Kingdom
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Pinner Players Present Nöel Coward’s Blithe Spirit
2023-02-18 19:45 - 22:00, 2023-02-17 19:45 - 22:00, 2023-02-16 19:45 - 22:00 | Pinner Village Hall, Chapel Lane, Pinner, Middlesex, HA5 1AA, United Kingdom

Pinner Local History Society - Mercenary River: A History of London's Water
2023-02-02 20:00 - 22:00 | Pinner Village Hall, Chapel Lane, Pinner, HA5 1AA, United Kingdom
Pinner Local History Society
Thursday 2nd February at 8pm Pinner Village Hall, Chapel Lane, Pinner.
Title: Mercenary River: A History of London’s Water
Speaker: Nick Higham
Visitors are very welcome (suggested donation £3).
The talk will highlight the conflict of interests arising when a commercial enterprise, out to make profits for its shareholders, provides a public service. This is a 17th century problem that is all too familiar today. It’s a story of remarkable technological, scientific and organisational breakthroughs, greed, complacency, high finance and low politics. Among the breakthroughs were the picturesque New River, neither new nor a river but a state-of-the-art aqueduct completed in 1613 and still part of London’s water supply. The company that built it was one of the first modern business corporations and one of the most profitable. We will also hear horrid details about the sources, and contents, of some of the water supplied to Victorian London.
Nick is a well known journalist and author. He worked for the BBC for some 30 years and was their arts and media correspondent. He has recently published a book with the same title as his talk. Andrew Marr’s review of the book says ‘ Anyone interested in London needs to read this book’.
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The Leaves Be Green - Chely's consort of viols
2023-01-28 19:00 - 22:00 | Pinner Parish Church, Church Lane, HA5 3AA, Select a Country:
Renaissance music and traditional folks songs celebrating the turning of the seasons.
With Gwendolen Martin – soprano and Jonathan Hanley – tenor.
Tickets £15, concessions £10 (under 30 and those in receipt of benefits), under 16’s free.
Tickets available from: 07949 511619 www.ticketsource.co.uk/chelys

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