![]() foster study of the artist and his work and.conserve and exhibit the collection of works of William Heath Robinson made by his daughter Joan Brinsmead.The William Heath Robinson Trust was set up to: The Museum continues to need your support to maintain the facility and the exhibitions and welcomes all donations! The Heritage Lottery Fund awarded the Trust £1.3m to build the new Heath Robinson Museum on the side of West House and we raised over £500,000, including generous donations from local people and Heath Robinson fans as far afield as San Francisco and Singapore. The West House and Heath Robinson Museum Trust raised £1.5 million to complete the first phase of restoration of West House in June 2010. ![]() ![]() the Verden Gallery, a community room for hire on the first floor.the Shrine with the two Pinner Books of Remembrance.West House was restored and reopened in 2010, and contains: a café/restaurant for visitors to the museum and park.an education/community facility for the general public.a permanent home for the William Heath Robinson Trust Collection.The aims of the Trust are to restore West House for the benefit of the inhabitants of the London Borough of Harrow and the public in general and create The West House & Heath Robinson Museum Trust was set up in 2001 to take forward the West House project. ![]() The Shrine is the location of an annual short service of Remembrance at the 11 th hour of the 11 th day of the 11 th month. The first book contains some 133 names from WW2, in addition to many from WW1, and the second an additional 400 from WW2 identified in the late 90’s by the local historian, Hilary Thornley, following comments about omissions that were made when the first Book was displayed on the 50 th Anniversary of the end of the Second World War.Īlso on show at the Shrine are a map of the bomb damage in Pinner and photographs of every instance of damage indexed by location. The Shrine within West House contains the two Books of Remembrance of those from the old Parish of Pinner who gave their lives in the two World Wars. West House and Pinner Memorial Park were purchased and dedicated to those who gave their lives in the two World Wars. This renovation project paved the way for the development of the Heath Robinson Museum. Following extensive renovation, it was reopened in 2010 in a ceremony led by Michael Rosen, Professor of Children’s Literature at Goldsmith’s, University of London, who was brought up in Pinner and is a Patron of the Trust. Thanks to the Trustees’ efforts, the old house was saved and returned to community use. To manage and oversee the project, The West House & Heath Robinson Museum Trust was created. ![]() With the backing of the Council, The Pinner Association (the amenity society founded in 1932 which had originally raised the money to purchase West House) took on the task of saving the House for the public a second time. Used from that time for community activities, sadly the house fell into disrepair and Harrow Council closed it in the early 1990s. A condition of the Trust was that the Pinner Books of Remembrance should be kept at the House. The house and grounds were purchased by the people of Pinner after the Second World War and given in trust to the then Council as a war memorial to the dead of the two world wars. ![]()
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