Harrow Heritage Trail
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Harrow Heritage Trail Location A Grimsdyke House (see reverse) Old Redding, Harrow Weald B Queen’s Head Public House High Street, Pinner C Wax Well Waxwell Lane, Pinner at junction with Uxbridge Road U D Harrow Old Schools Y Church Hill, Harrow on the Hill E St Laurence Whitchurch (see reverse) A Whitchurch Lane by St Laurence Close L F Vaughan Library J High Street, Harrow on the Hill G Elthorne Gate I 64 High Street, Pinner P V H Grim’s Dyke (1) E Q W Montesole Playing Fields, Uxbrdige Road, Pinner A2 M I Grim’s Dyke (2) C Saddlers Mead Recreation Ground, off Clonard Way, S Hatch End H Z J Old St John’s Church, Great Stanmore Uxbridge Road near Old Church Lane G E X K West View, Victorian municipal office B T 39 High Street, Harrow on the Hill N L Clement Attlee, his residence Heywood Court, 135 London Road, Stanmore M The Weald Stone O Weald Stone Public House, High Road, Harrow Weald N Harrow & Wealdstone Station The Bridge, Wealdstone O Harrow Recreation Ground, Pavilion Hindes Road, Harrow A1 D K P Hatch End Station F R Uxbridge Road, Hatch End Q Mrs Beeton, site of her house Hatchets, 513 Uxbridge Road, Hatch End R Old Fire Station (see reverse) 90 High Street, Harrow on the Hill S Letchford House Headstone Lane, Hatch End T Pinner House Church Lane, Pinner U Stanmore Hall Wood Lane, Stanmore V The Cedars, gateway Uxbridge Road, at junction with Courtenay Drive W Canons Park, Gate Piers Canons Drive, Edgware X Wealdstone Mosaics (see reverse) The Bridge, Wealdstone Y Stanmore Park Uxbridge Road, Stanmore, near the Old Church Z Elliott Hall Harrow Heritage Trust Executive Committee CONTACTS Contact Details of Harrow Heritage Trust Harrow Arts Centre, Uxbridge Road, Hatch End Councilor Navin Shah A1 Zoroastrian Centre (see reverse) Room 102, Labour Group Office Harrow Civic Centre Information (020) 8863 5611 Martin Verden. Chairman The Ace Bar, Alexandra Avenue, Rayners Lane PO Box 2, Civic Centre, Station Road Harrow School Guided Tours (020) 8423 1524 E-mail: [email protected] B1 Pinner Hill Farm (see reverse) HARROW, HA1 2UH Old Speech Room (020) 8872 8000 Telephone: 020 8866 0111 (020) 8427 0341 Pinner Hill Road, Pinner Leaflet design by Peter Serwecinski, Fadumo Jama, Shevelle Manning, Bhavik Mavadia, Stanmore College. Stanmore Mavadia, Bhavik Manning, Shevelle Jama, Fadumo Serwecinski, Peter by design Leaflet age of the future, whilst protecting the heritage of the past. the of heritage the protecting whilst future, the of age Pinner Hill Farm - chitects of both landscape and buildings to create the herit the create to buildings and landscape both of chitects Relic of farming past with good re-use. - Their main objective is to encourage today’s artists and ar and artists today’s encourage to is objective main Their Plaque - Built by Albert Pell of Pinner Hill House (now the Golf Clubhouse) Harrow Heritage is a small organization launched in 1985. 1985. in launched organization small a is Heritage Harrow c.1820-30 together with a chalk mine, and close to a old lime kiln. In 1862 Arthur Tooke added the Gothic clock tower and attached stable. The farmstead was About Harrow Heritage Trust Heritage Harrow About converted to residential and office use in 1985. Comment - This is one of the few reminders that the area was dependent upon Grims Dyke* agriculture until modern times. The modern conversion to residential and office Ancient earthwork. buildings still shows the farmstead layout. The low wall fronting Pinner Hill Road Plaque - ‘ This is made of sleeper blocks from the original railway built through Harrow and ancient earthwork Pinner in 1837. Before the farm there was a chalk mine on the site, producing once stretched chalk for liming the fields. The mine is still there; at 112 foot deep it is the deepest through Harrow for known chalk workings in the UK. some six miles from Cuckoo Hill , Pinner, to Pear Wood, Stanmore, but only parts now remain. Named after Grim St Laurence Church (Norse God Woden).’ Typical village church, medieval and 18th century. Comment - Its age is Plaque - Rebuilt 1715 with Baroque interior by James Brydges, later Duke unknown; it could have been built just before the of Chandos, who lived in nearby Cannons and employed G F Handel as Romans came to Britain, or just after they left. When the composer-in-residence. Saxons saw it the they thought it must have been built by Comment - One of Harrow’s medieval churches. The tower is early 16th the god Grim. It consists of a bank at the north and a ditch century. In the early 18th century the Duke of Chandos, builder of the at the south, and is thought to have been a boundary, adjoining mansion called Cannons, also rebuilt the rest of the church, and rather than a defensive work. had the interior entirely painted in the Baroque style, employing famous *The following picture is of Grymdyke Hotel artists. The result was very unusual indeed for a parish church. The organ is the one played by the duke’s musician, who was George Handel, composer of The Messiah. On the north side of the church the Duke’s burial chapel, or mausoleum, contains his statue and family tombs. Wealdstone Mosaics Zoroastrian Centre Modern community art. Art deco cinema. Plaque - ‘These mosaics were made by children from Plaque - This Art Deco Whitefriars First and Middle School under the direction of cinema building was artist Duncan Hoosan to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s designed in 1936 by Golden Jubilee in June 2002. This project was managed by F E Bromige, and Wealdstone Active Community and supported by funding from built by T F Nash Harrow Heritage Trust and Harrow Town Centre.’ Comment Ltd. At first it was - The adjoining Harrow & Wealdstone Station was first The Grosvenor, then opened in 1837. The down-side buildings date from 1875, and in 1938 The Odeon, the up-side from 1910-12; it also has a HHT plaque. One of in 1950 The Gaumont, the greatest railway disasters in British history occurred here in in 1964 The Odeon and 1952. in 1981 The Ace. From 1990 it was a bar, The Cine Bar Experience. It was acquired by the Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe in 2000. It was restored and refurbished into a Zoroastrian Community Centre and place of worship and is its European Centre. The Old Fire Station, Harrow on Hill: Comment - Before World War Ii almost every suburb Early municipal building. had a cinema and most people paid a weekly visit. They Plaque - 1888-1963, designed by Charles F Hayward, at a cost of £2000, were built in all sorts of architectural style, but few now as Harrow’s first purpose built fire station and Local Board office.’ remain. This one is a fine example of the Art Deco style Comment - this is one of a cluster of buildings close to the green which and should be seen as part of the brand new, almost text- were built when Harrow was a young local authority, proud of its book, suburb of Rayners Lane, with its station, shops, The buildings. No. 49 opposite was built in 1868 as the first office of the wide boulevard, trees and flower beds. This building is Harrow Local Board of Health (forerunner of Harrow Council), and con- a statutorily listed building, Grade 2, starred. The station Harrow tained the board room, the office, and the Surveyor’s dwelling; it al is a statutorily listed building, Grade 2, and the whole Heritage Trail so has a HHT plaque. No. 90, adjoining the Fire Station, was the Council stretch from the station green to Warden Avenue is a House of Harrow, built in 1913, and is a statutorily listed building, Grade 2. conservation area. They are excellent examples of Victorian and Edwardian municipal architecture..