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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Fire Engine
Here, about 1890, is the Foreman of the Pinner Fire Brigade posing with the manual fire engine. He is either Walter Beaumont or his brother George, each of whom served a term as Foreman. At this time the fire station was no more than a stable (demolished) alongside Orchard Cottage in Waxwell Lane. A purpose-built Fire Station, looking like later domestic garages, was erected at the corner of Love Lane and Bridge Street In 1903. Sometime in the 1920s the fire engine was motorised. All the firemen were volunteers until Harrow Council took over the service in the later 1930s.
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Pinner High Street, Coronation day 1911
There was a flag-bedecked procession around the centre of Pinner to mark George V’s coronation. Here a couple of chaps are dressed up as a nurse and invalid. There was no record of trouble for the attendant constables to handle.
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Pinner High Street
The is 1904, when a child could walk right down the middle of the street and carts with horses could park on the pavement. There is a gas lamp up at the right and a high pole for telephone wires almost opposite.
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5. Bottom of High Street c 1910
A lively view of the bottom of Edwardian High Street. Notice how, at at time when cars were still a rarity, people walked casually in the roadway! The elegant group on the right are passing Barclays Bank, in the new building which had in 1905 replaced that used by its predecessor, a branch of the Uxbridge Bank.
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Pinner High Street
Here we see the lower part, probably before 1920. Many Pinner locals had their photograph taken in Emery’s ‘Studio’ at no. 10 on the right. At the left, the buildings beyond the weather-boarded one were built between 1900 and 1905. Cycling seems to have been popular.
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Pinner High Street
This picture of the 1920s shows a horse taken out of its shafts to drink at the Queen’s Head horse trough. Perhaps that is its cart at the extreme right. Higher up a car - the newer transport - is also parked on the pavement. The flag flying from the church tower might mean that this was St. George’s Day.
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Coronation celebrations 1911
As everywhere else, Pinner celebrated the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary in 1911 with a procession and other events. In the procession local organisations such as the Fire Brigade and the Silver Band paraded, traders drove their specially-decorated carts, and there were lots of miscellaneous wheeled contributions, such as a coster’s donkey and cart with locals dressed as as “realistic costers”.’ They are outside the Queen’s Head, and standing to the right of the cart with his sleeves rolled up is George Billows, the licensee, and the lady beside him is probably his wife.
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1. High Street c 1910
This card was sold at The Bazaar (see extreme right). In 1905 the local paper had reported "The High Street is fast being converted into an up-to-date thoroughfare by a liberal layer of tarred stones, over which a fine spread of land and gravel is laid"... "This method of repair is becoming widespread in the country."
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