Pictures
Below are a selection of pictures of Pinner in the past. Articles and documents that may help researchers or anyone looking for information on Pinner and its environs as well as the people that lived here can be found on our Records page.
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Pinner fair in the early 1900s
Pinner Fair was granted by King Edward III in 1336 and still takes place each year. Here is one in Edwardian times, pictured at the junction of Bridge Street and Chapel Lane - there is a brief glimpse of the railway embankment and its trees between the houses at the right. Every building visible has since disappeared.
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Headstone Manor
Headstone Manor House, the oldest residence in Middlesex, and the only one surrounded by a water-filled moat, was built about 1310-1320 at the centre of a large estate. In 1344 it was acquired by the Archbishop of Canterbury, who was also Lord of the Manor of Harrow, to become his Middlesex residence.
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The old Rayners Lane
This was the view from Rayners Lane Station towards Pinner one winter-time before 1920. Rayners Lane itself is rutted, muddy and full of puddles. In the right-hand distance, between the trees, is the pair of farmworkers’ cottages where the Rayner family had lived during the 19th century. Pinner is a mile beyond them. The lane has existed since medieval times as the way linking Pinner with Roxeth.
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The Odeon Cinema at Rayners lane
The former Odeon Cinema at Rayners Lane, photographed in 1974, is listed Grade II*. It is a bold and simple Art Deco work of 1936 designed by F.E. Bromige, who designed other cinemas. It had seating for 1235 people. It closed as a cinema in 1980 and was for some years a club, in 2000 it was refurbished as a Zoroastrian Community Centre and place of worship.
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The Bell pub at Pinner Green
Here is a very large cycling club out in force at the Bell public house at Pinner Green. The stable at the right (no cars yet) shows that advertising was just as blatant in those days. This is the second Bell, built about 1820 on the newly re-aligned roadway, replacing an early 18th century one a little further back. The third and last Bell, built about 1931 and demolished about 2004.
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The Cocoa Tree
Here, in the left-hand part of the building beside the church, at 64 High Street, stands what was originally Pinner’s temperance tavern, called Ye Cocoa Tree. It was opened in 1878, at the cost of local philanthropist (Judge) Edward Barber of Barrow Point House, to provide an alternative place of refreshment to public houses.
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High Street - butcher's shop c.1895-6
The quaint timber-framed shop at the top of the High Street, inset, opposite the church, was spruced up during the 20th century. The picture was taken about 1895, a few years before the gnarled ‘town tree’ beside it collapsed. The front part was built in the late 16th century and used as a ‘shop’. By about 1650 there was an addition at the left, and the shop had become a butcher’s shop, as which it remained, with a very short break, until the 1920s. The tall shed at the right was the slaughterhouse.
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Policemen c1900
Pinner Police Station was built in 1899 by Fassnidge & Sons of Uxbridge. The first Station Sergeant was John Moore (sitting on the left), who lived upstairs in the new station with his wife, Kate and their three sons. The station had cells to detain prisoners and they are still there although not used for that purpose now. Acknowledgement : Neil Watson, sometime Constable at Pinner, kindly supplied the photographs and narrative.
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Pinner Chalk Mines
John Gumm was gang-master at Pinner Chalk Mines from 1855 to 1870. Every year he signed in for the chalk digging time of a few weeks, to raise enough chalk to be burnt in lime kilns for Blackwell’s summer building operations. Only for the last year of operations John has written the closing date.
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