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Church Lane, PINNER, HA5 3AD

The fountain was erected in 1886 by the inhabitants of Pinner in grateful memory of William Arthur Tooke, JP, a local dignitary. It is on a small triangular green at the junction of Church Lane and Moss Lane. With its columns of red granite and with its grey granite broach spire it is a Grade II Listed structure. Unfortunately its drinking fountain capabilites appear to have been lost for some time.

Looking south-east.

A much-appreciated open area, with a path leading from the new development on Nower Hill down to George V Avenue and continuing across Hall's Farm, to the footbridge across the railway near Headstone Lane station

Sheltered housing for the elderly, the facade is a Georgian house at the back of which two modern wings have been added. Situated on Church Lane, in an area with many cases of hauntings.

A large Georgian building now used as sheltered housing for the elderly

Pinner House on Church Lane has a façade dating from 1721 although the rest of the house was built some time earlier. It is known to have been used as a school for a time in the 19th century but later became a family home. In 1939 it became an old people's home and is now sheltered accommodation for the elderly. There are 31 self-contained flats located in a rear extension to the old house which is now used for communal area and facilities.

The house is in Church Lane and is possibly 17th century with the façade being completed in 1721. Between 1788 and 1811 it was the home of the Rev. Walter Williams, Vicar of Pinner and Harrow, and his wife, Mary Beauclerc, great-granddaughter of King Charles II and Nell Gwynn.

Pinner station was opened on 25th May 1885, following a prior expansion to nearby Harrow-on-the-Hill station in 1880. It remained the terminus of the Metropolitan Railway until 1st September 1887 when the line was further extended to Rickmansworth. In 1915, the Metroland project was conceived in order to move people out of central London into rural Middlesex. Houses near the stations were built in haste and sold for as little as £400 each. However, in Pinner, houses built during this expansion were required to be worth at least £1,000. What is now the Chiltern Line began as the Great Central Railway on 15th March 1899. The Great Central Railway provided services from Marylebone to destinations such as Rugby, Leicester, Nottingham and Manchester before the Beeching Axe cut them back to Aylesbury. They used the same tracks as the Metropolitan until 1962 when a pair of fast lines was added from Harrow-on-the-Hill to north of Moor Park. These by-pass Pinner station to the south and are used by Chiltern Line trains and fast Metropolitan Line trains. In this photograph from the up platform, the fast lines are on the far right. An all-stations Metropolitan line train bound for Chesham approaches. Harrow-on-the-Hill and its church can be seen in the distance.The next station in this direction is North Harrow.