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 Chalk Mines
Chalk was extracted in Pinner, from the Middle Ages onwards, for use as a soil conditioner and for baking to provide lime for mortar. By the late 18th century easily accessible sources had been exhausted and it became necessary to mine for it. The mines were north of the Uxbridge Road. The largest mine, seen in this photograph, under the Montesole playing field and was worked c 1850-70: it closed when the railways made it cheaper to mine elsewhere.
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School in Pinnerwood Park - Sports Day 1937
The children in this photograph attended a small and short-lived private school in Pinnerwood Park (at the junction of Woodhall Gate and Marsworth Avenue). This shows their Sports Day in 1937.
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School in Pinnerwood Park - group photograph
The children in this photograph attended a small and short-lived private school in Pinnerwood Park (at the junction of Woodhall Gate and Marsworth Avenue). The photograph was taken shortly before World War 2.
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The White Hart in the High Street
These cyclists look like members of a visiting cycle club, calling at the White Hart Coffee Tavern Tea Rooms, the be-flagged building alongside them. If that is the proprietor in the doorway, it is probably Charles Shirvell. The notice below the ground floor window points to the tea garden up the side alley. This building, put up in the early 1860s, is the very first building on this plot, which until then had been part of the garden of nos. 4-6 High Street, once a pub called The Victory and now a restaurant.
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Pinner Post Office 1901-10
This was Pinner Post Office from 1910-10, and the Telephone Exchange from 1908-10. One of the ladies, who would have been counter clerks and telephonists, is probably Mrs. Newman, Postmistress from 1903. She was the daughter of Robert Rowe, the previous Postmaster, who hand moved to this address from the earlier Pos Office at No.2 High Street, whose site was needed for a new bank (now an estate agent's office). The lad with the bike is Charley Greenfield. The shop, at no.23, was done away with in the later 1970s and made into Bishops Walk to serve Bishop's new supermarket, now Marks & Spencer.
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Milk delivery during World War 2
This young woman carried out deliveries for the dairy in Hatch End during World War 2. She was unimpressed with government advice about how to prevent her horse from bolting during an air raid. They suggested taking the horse out of the shafts and turning him round so he faced the cart. We understand her cart at the time had only two wheels. In any case, she was clear that attempting to take the recommended action single-handed would have resulted in everything falling off the cart.
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Is this the first car in Pinner?
There is no record of the dates when Pinner residents began to buy private cars, but this must be one of the first vehicles. It belonged to Alfred and Agnes Marshall, of The Towers, an imposing dwelling at the corner of West End Lane and Eastcote Road. The vehicle was a Panhard, roofless and open to the weather, hence the need for travel rugs such as the butler in the porch holds, and tied-on hats. Alfred sits beside the driver, who is perhaps their son, and Agnes is one of the three ladies, the others being their daughters.
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Pinner High Street
This picture of the top of the High Street at the beginning of the 20th century shows a completely different south side. The Hand in Hand pub at the right and everything to the left was replaced by Grange Court in the 1920s and 1930s. The white house at the top remains unchanged except for timbering added to its facade.
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Upper High Street c 1905
This view of the Edwardian High Street gives a glimpse of houses and shops on the right which were demolished in the 1930s. The postcard - unfortunately low quality - was sold, and the photograph probably taken, by tobacconist George Jaques, grandson of Pinner's last miller.
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