OCTOBER 2026

Every Friday: Elliott Hall Surgery Walk. Meet at Harrow Arts Centre at the Sundial at 10.30am for a 50-minute friendly health walk through Pinner Park Farm and back. All are welcome. For more walks, visit www.harrow/gov.walk or email publichealth@harrow.gov.uk for more info.

Harrow Arts Centre: for details of what’s on in October, visit www.harrowarts.com/whats-on.

ongoing: Heath Robinson Museum: To celebrate the museum’s 10th anniversary, the summer exhibition UNSEEN brings together an extraordinary collection of Heath Robinson works rarely seen by the public. Featuring pieces that have never been exhibited before, alongside others absent from display for decades, the exhibition draws from the Heath Robinson family, private collections, museums, and specialist archives. Highlights include works from exclusive publishing archives, the Royal Academy, and even the King’s Royal Collection at Windsor Castle. Many of these remarkable pieces will return to storage once the exhibition closes — making UNSEEN a rare chance to see them together, and an opportunity that may never come again. The Museum is open 11am-4pm, Thursday-Sunday. Tickets: adults, £8; child 5-15, £2 (under 5s free); concessions (student, disabled person, in receipt of benefits) £4; carer (with disabled person) free; Art Fund, free.

until 31 October: Boxtree Park Friends. What’s on in October. See PDF below.

WHAT’S ON IN OCTOBER 2026

17 October: Litter Pick-Up: organised by 1st Hatch End Scouts and the Hatch End Association. Please come and help – all are welcome. Help us keep Hatch End a pleasant place to live and work. Details as follows:

• 2-4pm – but you don’t have to come for 2 hours. If you can only make half an hour, it is still worth it.
• Start outside 1st Hatch End Scout Group HQ, off the car park between Leeway Close and Grimsdyke Road (behind Kwik Fit), HA5 4JB
• Collect a litter picker, gloves, a bag and tabard, or use your own equipment if you have it
• Pick up litter wherever you like in the local Hatch End area
• Return bags to designated place (TBC) for collection by Harrow Council
• Refreshments are kindly offered by 1st Hatch End Scouts at the Scout Hut at 4pm.
• 17 October: Harrow Choral Society: Autumn Concert – 5:30-6:30pm at St Alban’s Church, North Harrow HA2 7PF. Duruflé’s Requiem and a selection of French religious music of the early 20^th century to include works by Lili Boulanger, Fernand Laloux and Alfred Desenclos. Conducted by Joe Tobin, the new Music Director (see Hatch End Bulletin, Summer edition), and accompanied on the organ by Paul Ayres. Tickets £13 in advance (no booking fee), £15 on the door, under 18s £2. Book at www.harrowchoral.org.uk, email boxoffice@harrowchoral.org.uk or telephone 07794 253463.

NOVEMBER 2026
7 November to 7 March 2027: Heath Robinson Museum: The Genie and Other Stories, a new exhibition by acclaimed artist Michael Petry, marking the launch of a new programme of contemporary artist commissions that invites fresh perspectives on the museum’s collection. For this commission, Petry has responded to Heath Robinson’s illustrations for The Arabian Nights, with a particular focus on the story of Aladdin, alongside other tales and characters illustrated by Robinson. Petry explores themes of identity, fantasy, transformation and the Other, examining how images shape our understanding of difference, desire and the unfamiliar. Known for his explorations of symbolism, materiality and the relationship between objects and meaning, Petry has transformed the gallery into an immersive installation:
*  27 hand blown coloured glass vases inspired by the Genie for catching wishes (fabricated by the staff and students at the Arts University Plymouth, to Petry’s designs)
* Reimagined hand-made silver objects evoking ideas of treasure and worship
* Monumental necklaces of semi-precious stones conjuring thoughts of magic & wonder
* Unseen Arabian Night drawings by Heath Robinson
* Gold and silver objects suggesting epic stories of adventure and exploration
* Family activities to create their own Genie wish bottle building a community event
The Museum is open 11am-4pm, Thursday-Sunday. Tickets: adults, £8; child 5-15, £2 (under 5s free); concessions (student, disabled person, in receipt of benefits) £4; carer (with disabled person) free; Art Fund, free.

DECEMBER 2026

3 December: Christmas Tree Light-Up. Annual lighting of the Christmas tree in The Broadway by the Mayor of Harrow with carols from the Harrow Apollo Male Choir accompanied by Avis Gery and Fr David Green. Carols form 4pm, light up by the Mayor at 4.30pm. All are welcome. The tree and its lights are paid for by the Hatch End Association.

5-29 December: Immersion Theatre at Harrow Arts Centre: annual panto – Sleeping Beauty. Various time on different days. Tickets: @22/£19 concessions. £76 family/group ticket. For more info and to book, visit www.harrowarts.com. Box office: 020 3773 7161. HAC: 171 Uxbridge Road, HA5 4EA.

12 December: Harrow Choral Society: Christmas Celebration Concert in Harrow School’s Speech Room at 5:30pm. The concert will feature choir Christmas music both traditional and new as well as audience participation carols. One of the pieces which is new to the choir is Sarah Quartel’s arrangement of the Huron Carol, renamed Iesous ahatonnia, which sets new texts by Wendat poet Andrée Levesque Sioui and invites choirs and audiences to learn from the past while working to shape a better future. The performance will be conducted by Music Director Joe Tobin and the choir will be accompanied on the organ by composer and arranger, Paul Ayres. Tickets are £25 in advance, £28 on the door and £2 for under-18s. Visit www.harrowchoral.org.uk , or email at boxoffice@harrowchoral.org.uk or  call 07794 253463 .

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