Harrow on the Hill station now has a lift - at last!

Harrow on the Hill station, London, England.

Photo from Wikipedia 

We have waited so long. This is a great new development. Perfect for people visiting Harrow for shopping. Nice for those en route to and from Northwick Park hospital. For tourists hoping to visit Harrow on the Hill school, outside, or inside on a tour.

The bus station beside the train station has numerous bus routes, including South Harrow station, Hatch End station, Northwick Park Hospital and many more.

In addition to helping those who want to avoid stairs, or carry suitcases, sometimes the lifts up and down can speed you so that you catch a train which would otherwise depart whilst you negotiate the stairs.

Lift on the platform, before you reach the stairs at Harrow on the Hill railway station. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Lift on the other platform at Harrow on the Hill train station. Photo by Angela Lansbury

You will also find lifts at Pinner.

What I realized today about the lifts and their cost, is that you cannot just install one lift. You need two, maybe three, depending on the number of platforms.

Useful Websites

https://www.harrow.gov.uk/news/article/11070/a-step-in-the-right-direction-harrow-on-the-hill-station-goes-step-free#:~:text=Harrow%2Don%2Dthe%2DHill%20Tube%20station%20is%20now%20step,line%20trains%2C%20and%20signage%20enhanced.

https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations_destinations/HOH.aspx

HOH stands for Harrow on the Hill

https://tfl.gov.uk/maps/track/tube

How To Find Osteria Modigliani, Italian Restaurant, and see the best of Pinner, and Harrow in Middlesex, NW London, and what to see in Pinner

Problem
How do you find my favourite restaurant in Pinner?

This is Pinner, looking downhill towards the station on the left, which is beyond the

High Street leading to the church. On the left immediately to the left of the picture foreground is St Luke's.

Looking uphill, the sign of Osteria Modigliani is on the right. Opposite, on the other side of the road, is Lidl supermarket.

For more details of Osteria Modigliani, see my earlier post.

Before or after you have lunch, you might want to look around Pinner.  If you come out of the station and cross the road you are at the entrance to Pinner Park. On a fine day, it's very pleasant to walk across to the pond and the aviary. Walk around to the other side of the pond to see the building housing the Heath Robinson Museum. Heath Robinson was a cartoonist who drew amusing complicated contraptions. Even if you don't have the time or money to visit the museum, you would enjoy looking at the bookshop and maybe buying a postcard or book or two.

Back on the Station side of the road, instead of turning left towards Osteria Modigliani, go up the other street ahead of you. On the right is the old Victory pub, named after Nelson's victory, and now a restaurant. On the left is another old pub in Tudor style.

The Bizarre Coffin In The Sky

At the top of the High Street is a church with the coffin in the sky, a coffin in the middle of an obelisk. Why? Because of a will saying about somebody being underground. To get around the will, the coffin was kept above ground.

Pinner has been in quite a few films which you might have seen in cinemas or on television. I like to think of it as pretty Pinner. 

From Pinner, you can take the train to Harrow on the Hill and if you have the time and energy walk uphill to see Harrow on the Hill, pass the Castle pub, and the quaint shops and the old school Harrow, where Churchill went to school. In summer the boys wear straw hats. The school has a museum and museum tours and other events. 

If you take the train into London, you can stop at Baker Street for Madame Tussaud's or the Sherlock Holmes Museum. As Jonson said, "Whoever is tired of London is tired of life."

For more details of Osteria Modigliani, see my earlier post.

osteriamodigliani.co.uk

visitbritain.com/gb/en

visitbritain.org

http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/wine-museum-and-olives-and-olive-oil.html

http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/osteria-modigliani-fine-italian.html

http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/marvellous-meal-at-osteria-modigliani.html

Also see my posts on Umbria, Perugia, the City of Lovers and Valentine's Day.

Author, Angela Lansbury, travel writer 

St Anselm's Church, Hatch End, welcomed associated Mrs Beeton, Blackwell the soup mogul, the Spooner family and more

Mrs Beeton, the cookery writer, whose home is commemorated by the plaque in Hatch End High street was one of the well known parishioners of St Anselm's Church. After admiring her plaque take a walk along the bustling high street towards the station and turn down Westfireld Park, a cup-de sac, to the church, which is still an oasis of peace amongst the tall trees and birdsong. It's so quiet you could hear a pine cone drop.

The soup mogul, Mr Thomas Blackwell, famous for Cross and Blackwell soup, owned the land near what is now Hatch End station. (When another station was built, the station in Hatch End was renamed Hatch End and the newer station was called Pinner.)

If you search on Google you'll find several other churches called St Anselm's but St Anselm actually had a connection to this Harrow.

Here is St Anselm

When can you see inside the church?

Pinner Arts Week is 26 Sept to 5 Oct 2014 and at the weekend of Saturday 5 October and Sunday 6 October 2014 there is free entry to Discover St Anselm's. 11-3 pm.
 'Tours highlighting the Louis Davis stained glass windows, Charles Spooner's carved oak rood screen, World War One memorial, Millennium tapestry, embroidered vestments, displays, music and refreshments.'
(For more about the church see next post under construction - come back later for more.)