The next Pinner Local History Society talk is William Heath Robinson: the Middlesex Years, 1908-1918 on Thursday 3rd October at 8pm in the Pinner Village Hall. William Heath Robinson spent some of his most formative years locally, first in Hatch End (1908-11) and then in Pinner (1911-18). Not only was it a period when he […]
Our next visit is to Headstone Manor on 23rd October at 2pm. Built in 1310, the moated manor house known as Headstone Manor is the earliest surviving timber-framed building in Middlesex. Described as "one of the most interesting domestic complexes in the whole country", the fabric of Headstone Manor contains examples of work dating from the 14th, 17th […]
Pinner is centuries old. It was one of the ten hamlets of the medieval Harrow Manor and is still the most easily distinguishable today. The name Pinner is nowadays considered to be of Saxon origin. Among the oldest written records of Pinner is one telling us that the church was here during the 1230s.
