APRIL 2024
until 23 June: Heath Robinson Museum: Modernist Magazine Illustration. From about 1925 William Heath Robinson had respite from the constant need to be funnywith commissions to provide serious illustrations to short stories and articles in Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine and its sister publication Good Housekeeping. The exhibition will include illustrations for stories by Richmal Crompton, J. B. Priestly & Gerald Bullett and John van Druten, an English playwright and theatre director. He developed a distinctive style for these illustrations, very different from his earlier drawings and adapted to the two-colour printing process used for magazines of the time. He also produced a number of full-colour designs for the covers of magazines. . 1am-4pm, Thursday-Sunday. Tickets – adults, £6; over 65s, £5; student (25+)/people with disabilities, £4; child (18 and under), free; student (24 and under), free.

15 April: Hatch End Horticultural Society: house and garden visit to Chenies Manor House and Garden. Coach leaves Morrisons at 9.15am for this morning visit. £31.50 to include coach travel, access to the gardens, guided tour of the house tea/coffee and cake or £26.50 without the house tour. To book, contact John Barton at j.notrab70@gmail.com or 8428 5756 or Dick Wootten on wootten897@btinternet.com or 07710 367548.

22 April: Harrow Public Transport Users Association (HPTUA). Public meeting on bus services at 7:30pm at Harrow Baptist Church, College Road, HA1 1BA (a few minutes’ walk from Harrow Bus Station). All welcome.

MAY 2024
9 May: Hatch End Horticultural Society: talk on Preparing for Chelsea by John Amand at 8pm at the Baptist Church Sanctuary, Rowlands Avenue, Hatch End. John will have bulbs and plants for sale with him. £3 for members; £4 for non-members.

16 May: Hatch End Horticultural Society: talk on A Guide to Showing by Colin Spires at 8pm at the Baptist Church Hall, Rowlands Avenue, Hatch End. £3 for members; £4 for non-members.

30 May: Hatch End Horticultural Society: vist to RHS Hyde Hall, Essex. Coach leaves Morrisons at 9am for this all-day visit. Cost TBC. To book or for more info, contact John Barton at j.notrab70@gmail.com or 8428 5756 or Dick Wootten on wootten897@btinternet.com or 07710 367548.

JUNE 2024
29 June: Hatch End Horticultural Society: Summer Show, at the Scout HQ, off Grimsdyke Road car park, Hatch End at 2pm-4.30pm. Teas/coffees and cakes will be on sale plus plants and a raffle. Entrance free.

JULY 2024

6 July: Harrow Choral Society: Summer Concert, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem at St Alban’s Church, North Harrow at 5:30pm under the baton of Music Director Sam Evans. Composed in the late 1860s, Brahms’ German Requiem is a major work of the choral repertoire. The text, which the choir will sing in the original German, is set to melodious and expressive music. The choir will also sing anthems from the English choral tradition: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in C by Charles Stanford, and works by Ernest Bullock and Edward Bairstow. Tickets: £18, £14 for Friends of HCS, £2 for under 18s. For more info or to book, visit or contact, www.harrowchoral.org.uk; boxoffice@harrowchoral.org.uk; 07794 253463.

24 July: Hatch End Horticultural Society: visit to Waterperry Gardens, Oxfordshire. Coach leaves Morrisons at 9am for this all-day visit. Cost TBC. To book or for more info, contact John Barton at j.notrab70@gmail.com or 8428 5756 or Dick Wootten on wootten897@btinternet.com or 07710 367548.

SEPTEMBER 2024
21 September: Hatch End Horticultural Society: Summer Show, at the Scout HQ, off Grimsdyke Road car park, Hatch End at 2pm-4.30pm. Teas/coffees and cakes will be on sale plus plants and a raffle. Entrance free.

30 September: Harrow Public Transport Users Association (HPTUA). AGM at 7:30pm at Harrow Baptist Church, College Road, HA1 1BA (a few minutes’ walk from Harrow Bus Station). All welcome.

OCTOBER 2024
19 October: Harrow Choral Society: Autumn Concert. Visit www.harrowchoral.org.uk.

22 October: Hatch End Horticultural Society: visit to Batsford Arboretum and Garden Centre & Bourton House and Garden. Coach leaves Morrisons at 9am for this all-day visit. Cost TBC. To book or for more info, contact John Barton at j.notrab70@gmail.com or 8428 5756 or Dick Wootten on wootten897@btinternet.com or 07710 367548.

30 October: Hatch End Horticultural Society: Quiz Supper at the Scout HQ, off Grimsdyke Road car park, Hatch End at 7pm for 7.15pm. Cost £18. To book or for more info, contact Sheila Reid on sheila_reid16@hotmail.com or Lesley Morgan on 8421 4044.

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