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Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

I'm sure that some of you have come across other 'discoveries' of this wee nugget, but I've only just stumbled across the fact that nutty illustrator William Heath-Rinson was born just round the corner in Stroud Green/Finsbury Park at 25 Ennis Road. 

Read more at the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

I'd love to see an illustration in the style of Heath-Robinson of how Brexit happens. Any takers?

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Who'd a thought it - another nugget of local history.

And there is a Heath Robinson Museum recently opened in Pinner [link https://www.heathrobinsonmuseum.org/ ], less than 10 mins from Pinner station, Metropolitan Line. Perhaps there's inspiration there re the B word.

Museum looks really interesting. Thank you.

Bruce Castle have some of his work too.

I'm sure if Heath Robinson were still living in Stroud Green or Highgate he would want to devote his remaining years to his Kober Memorial Series on the Haringey Development Vehicle, merging the immortal inspirations of 

www.haringey.gov.uk/regeneration/haringey-development-vehicle

with the incorrigible optimism of scheming councillors as set out in

www.haringey.gov.uk/parking-roads-and-travel/roads-and-streets/road...

Of course a Heath-Robinson Haringey development vehicle! Why didn’t I think of that?

My friend lives in his old house in Highgate. Winner winner chicken dinner etc.

I see that his Blue Plaque is in Pinner even though he only lived there five years.

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