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30-479: The Artizans Company was established in 1867 by William Austin, an illiterate who had begun his working life on a farm as a scarecrow paid 1d per day, and had worked his way up to become a drainage contractor. The company was established as a for-profit joint stock company , with the objective of building new houses for the working classes "in consequence of the destruction of houses by railroads and other improvements". Whilst philanthropic housing companies such as

60-658: A group of houses in Battersea , then still a rural village. The proceeds of the sale were used to purchase a plot of land in Salford for development, and by 1874 the company had developments in Liverpool , Birmingham , Gosport and Leeds . The Artizans Company is best known for its four large housing estates built on the then-outskirts of London. The first was Shaftesbury Park , a development of 1,200 two-storey houses covering 42.5 acres (0.17 km; 0.07 sq mi) built in 1872 on

90-477: A large house in it which includes a museum to Illustrator Heath Robinson as well as a cafe which hosts regular music events throughout the summer; while Roxbourne Gardens also hosts a pop-up cafe and music venue on Sundays year-round. Much of Pinner has an elevation of about 148 feet (45 m) to 200 feet (60 m). Nower Hill rises to a peak of about 260 feet (80 m) above sea level while Pinner Park peaks at 203 feet (62 m). The semi-rural Pinnerwood area

120-573: A rugby union team, Pinner and Grammarians RFC, a member club of the Rugby Football Union . It is the most junior team to have supplied a President to the RFU. Pinner also has a cricket team, Pinner Cricket Club, and a youth football club, Pinner United FC. The area also has a golf course, Pinner Golf course. In addition to numerous restaurants and a number of public houses, Pinner has an amateur theatre group, Pinner Players, who have been performing in

150-469: A site of 61 acres (0.25 km; 0.10 sq mi) was purchased. However, the Queen's Park project suffered serious mismanagement and fraud and in 1877 the company secretary William Swindlehurst and two others were found guilty of defrauding £9,312 (approximately £1.11 million today) from the project. The company was forced to raise rents and tenants were no longer permitted to buy their houses; by 1880

180-469: A taxation system biased against private property developments and legal restrictions on raising rents made the company's traditional model unprofitable, and it began to divest itself of its original low-rent developments and instead to sell vacant houses on the estates and to reinvest in non low-rent housing and commercial property, especially in the United States and Canada where depreciation before tax

210-421: A wholly owned subsidiary of Sun Life , and on, 3 February 1981, the company was renamed Sun Life Properties Ltd. Scarecrow A scarecrow is a decoy or mannequin that is often in the shape of a human . Humanoid scarecrows are usually dressed in old clothes and placed in open fields to discourage birds from disturbing and feeding on recently cast seed and growing crops. Scarecrows are used around

240-535: Is now contiguous with neighbouring suburban districts including Rayners Lane and Eastcote . Pinner contains a large number of homes built in the 1930s Art Deco style, the most grand of which is the Grade II listed Elm Park Court at the junction of West End Lane and Elm Park Road. Pinner is also the site of one of the UK's oldest chartered fairs, called Pinner Fair, which has been held annually since 1336. Pinner lay within

270-465: Is steep, and rises to a peak of over 390 feet (120 m) around Pinner Hill Golf Course. Pinner is both a religiously and culturally mixed area, with the ethnic minority population having grown significantly since the 1970s. Pinner ward nonetheless had the highest concentration of people describing themselves as white in the London Borough of Harrow, at 72 per cent of the population in 2011. In 2013

300-642: The Peabody Trust and the Improved Industrial Dwellings Company would focus on multi-storey blocks of flats in the inner cities , the Artizans Company aimed to build low-rise housing in open countryside alongside existing railway lines to allow workers to live in the countryside and commute into the city. The company attracted the attention of Lord Shaftesbury , who served as president until 1875. The company built and immediately sold

330-773: The 15th century. Harrow Council has been governed by the Conservative Party since 2022. Pinner has two wards , Pinner and Pinner South, each represented by three Conservative councillors. Pinner is in the Brent and Harrow constituency for the London Assembly which has been represented since 2024 by Krupesh Hirani ( Labour ). Since the 2010 general election , Pinner has been part of the Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner parliamentary constituency, currently served by David Simmonds . Pinner includes Pinner Village at its centre, along with

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360-527: The Harrow Heritage Trust, who secure the protection, preservation, restoration and improvement of the character and amenities of the London Borough of Harrow. London's blue plaques scheme, run by English Heritage , celebrates the links between notable figures of the past and the buildings in which they lived and worked. The architecture in Pinner has evolved greatly over the centuries. The majority of

390-606: The Pinner South ward had a crime rate of 24.5, which was the lowest out of all 628 wards of Greater London. The ward also has (data from 2009 to 2013) the second highest female life expectancy in the capital: 91.7 years, only bettered by Holland ward in Kensington and Chelsea . Pinner holds a number of Fairs and Fetes that are renowned in North West London for bringing its diverse and cosmopolitan community together. Pinner has

420-411: The Pinner South ward had the next highest proportion of white people in the borough at 69.4 per cent. Various churches, a synagogue and others serve the religious needs of the community. Pinner also has the lowest crime rate in the whole of London, with several independent schools and single-sex schools with a prestigious reputation, making it a popular area for affluent families. In the 2014/15 period,

450-765: The Worlds : He learned they were the wife and the younger sister of a surgeon living at Stanmore, who had come in the small hours from a dangerous case at Pinner, and heard at some railway station on his way of the Martian advance. Pinner Underground station was opened in 1885 and is on the Metropolitan line in London fare zone 5 . In normal off-peak conditions the train takes approximately half an hour to Baker Street Underground station and approximately three-quarters of an hour to Aldgate Underground station . Hatch End railway station

480-563: The already archaic -ora (meaning 'hill') suggests its origins lie no later than circa 900. The name Pinn is shared with the River Pinn , which runs through the middle of Pinner. Another suggestion of the name is that it means 'hill-slope shaped like a pin'. The oldest part of the town lies around the fourteenth-century parish church of St. John the Baptist, at the junction of the present day Grange Gardens, High Street and Church Lane. The church

510-722: The area since 1936 and currently stage productions at Pinner Village Hall off Chapel Lane. The Heath Robinson Museum in Pinner Memorial Park was opened in 2016 and is dedicated to the work of the cartoonist William Heath Robinson . Edward Lear makes reference to Pinner in More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc : There was an old person of Pinner, As thin as a lath, if not thinner; They dressed him in white, And roll'd him up tight, That elastic old person of Pinner. H. G. Wells mentions Pinner in The War of

540-731: The company to begin building centrally located tenement blocks more similar to those of other model dwellings companies . Between 1885 and 1892, the Artizans Company built 1,467 dwellings in Central London and the West End, the first being the Portman Buildings in Lisson Grove, Marylebone , opened in 1888. In 1952, the Artizans, Labourers & General Dwellings Company was renamed the Artizans and General Properties Company Ltd. The combination of

570-591: The company's finances had recovered sufficiently to allow further expansion. A third estate, Noel Park , was built near Wood Green north of London between 1883 and 1929, followed by a fourth in Streatham at Leigham Court . The slow take-up of available homes in Noel Park, particularly due to the Great Eastern Railway 's refusal to offer third-class rail fares from the nearby Noel Park and Wood Green station, led

600-490: The county of Middlesex . The population was 38,698 in 2021. Originally a mediaeval hamlet , the St John Baptist church dates from the 14th century and other parts of the historic village include Tudor buildings. The newer High Street is mainly 18th-century buildings, while Bridge Street has a more urban character and many chain stores . Pinner was originally a hamlet , first recorded in 1231 as Pinnora , although

630-499: The historic county of Middlesex ; it was located at the western end of the hundred of Gore , before it was in the Hendon Rural District . In 1965 it became a part of the London Borough of Harrow in the newly formed ceremonial county of Greater London. Pinner's St John the Baptist parish church was consecrated in 1321, but built on the site of an earlier Christian place of worship. The west tower and south porch date from

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660-515: The late fifteenth century. The village expanded rapidly between 1923 and 1939 when a series of garden estates, including the architecturally significant Pinnerwood estate conservation area – encouraged by the Metropolitan Railway – grew around its historic core. It was largely from this time onwards that the area (including Hatch End , which forms the northeastern part of Pinner) assumed much of its present-day suburban character. The area

690-459: The localities of Pinner Green and Pinnerwood Park Conservation Area to the north. To the north east is the larger area of Hatch End , served by Hatch End railway station (originally opened as Pinner ). The River Pinn flows through Pinner, flowing in a diagonal direction. Large parks and open spaces are Pinner Memorial Park, Pinner Village Gardens, Roxbourne Gardens, Pinner Wood (woodlands) and Pinner Park (farmland). Pinner Memorial Park has

720-480: The rooks"). Scarecrow Fact and Fable , Peter Haining , 1986 [REDACTED] Media related to Scarecrows at Wikimedia Commons [REDACTED] Media related to Scarecrow festivals at Wikimedia Commons Pinner Pinner is a suburb in the London Borough of Harrow , northwest London, England, 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Charing Cross , close to the border with Hillingdon , historically in

750-479: The site of a former pig farm in Battersea. The success of Shaftesbury Park led to the construction of Queen's Park , built in 1874 on a far more ambitious scale on 76 acres (0.31 km; 0.12 sq mi) of land to the west of London, adjacent to the railway line out of Paddington ( Queen's Park station opened 1879), purchased from All Souls College, Oxford . A third London estate was planned at Cann Hall , and

780-495: The structures. Since the invention of the humanoid scarecrow, more effective methods have been developed. On California farmland, highly-reflective aluminized PET film ribbons are tied to the plants to produce shimmers from the sun. Another approach is using automatic noise guns powered by propane gas . One winery in New York has even used inflatable tube men or airdancers to scare away birds. Bodach-rocais (lit. "old man of

810-452: The world by farmers , and are a notable symbol of farms and the countryside in popular culture. The common form of a scarecrow is a humanoid figure dressed in old clothes and placed in open fields to discourage birds such as crows or sparrows from disturbing and feeding on recently cast seed and growing crops. Machinery such as windmills have been employed as scarecrows, but the effectiveness lessens as animals become familiar with

840-587: Was opened in 1842 and is on the London Overground Watford DC line in London fare zone 6 . In normal off-peak conditions it roughly takes three-quarters of an hour to Euston railway station . Public Transport in Pinner is governed by Transport for London . The Metropolitan Quietway Cycle Route runs through Pinner, as well as street-running cycle lanes on Pinner Road and Eastcote Road. The Celandine Route from West Drayton terminates at Pinner Memorial Park. The brown plaques are awarded by

870-549: Was originally a chapel of ease to St Mary's Church, Harrow on the Hill , and was first mentioned in 1234. It was rebuilt in the early fourteenth-century, and rededicated in 1321. The parish became independent of St Mary's in 1766, when the first perpetual curate was appointed; not until the Wilberforce Act of 1868 did it appoint its first vicar, one William Hind. The earliest surviving private dwelling, East End Farm Cottage, dates from

900-584: Was permitted, and in Australia , Belgium and France . In 1966, ownership of the four original London estates (Shaftesbury Park, Queen's Park, Noel Park and Leigham Court) was transferred to the respective local authorities, leaving 377 homes at Pinnerwood Park in Pinner as the last residential estate in Greater London owned by the company. In 1976, the Artizans Company, by then renamed Artagen Properties Ltd, became

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