Pinner and Grammarians RFC

Pinner Rugby Football Club is a rugby club in Pinner, northwest London and covers the London Borough of Harrow, the London Borough of Ealing and the London Borough of Hillingdon.
The club fields a first XV, 2nd XV, veteran's team and a club for children. The first XV play in the Herts/Middlesex Division 2. The club is a member of the Rugby Football Union. The club hosts the Socious Sports summer rugby camp for children.
History of the club
Pinner RFC was formed at a meeting in the Queen's Head public house in July 1934. Records have shown that a Pinner Rugby Football and Penny Farthing Racing Club played a match against Rosslyn Park in 1886 and then Harrow and Wealdstone in 1889, though the official year of formation is accepted as 1939. Pinner RFC played on several venues including Montesole Playing Field and during the Second World War at Old Millhillians off Headstone Lane, though all matches controlled by the Rugby Football Union (RFU) were suspended during the war. After the end of the war the club switched to Shaftesbury Playing Fields, Hatch End where the club still play. The original pavilion was formally opened on 23 January 1954 by Bill Ramsey, the then President of the RFU. Cyril Gadney MBE, who was an important member within rugby union societies, later becoming president of the London Society of RFU Referees, the Middlesex Rugby Football Union (1957-60) and the Rugby Football Union (1962-3). Indeed, Pinner is the most junior rugby club to have one of its members become the president of the RFU. At his invitation the visiting New Zealand national rugby union team spent Christmas at Pinner. His brother Jackie played at first class level. Howard Walters went on to captain Leicester University but returned to the club as it captain in the 1970s eventually becoming the Honorary Treasurer and then auditor. The club lost its trophies, memorabilia and photographs in the blaze. The club, through fund raising and a grant from the Rugby Foundation, rebuilt a new clubhouse soon after. In 2010, the pitch underwent construction to implement a new comprehensive drainage scheme funded by the RFU and the Harrow London Borough Council.

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