The next Pinner Local History Society talk is The Oily History of Margarine by Michael Clarke on Thursday 1st May at 8pm at back at Pinner Village Hall. Michael’s talk will cover of the invention of margarine in 1869 by French chemist Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès in response to a contest held by Emperor Napoleon III. It will preceded […]
MARCH TALK Our last talk was Local Road Transport Through the Ages, presented by The PLHS Research Group. The group presented new research into the history of road transport in Pinner and the surrounding areas. Thamar MacIver opened with a look at transport in and around Pinner before the advent of motor vehicles. Thamar covered the period when […]
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.
