Exhibition celebrates the 150th anniversary of Heath Robinson’s birth

Next week marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of William Heath Robinson, a man so famous for the fantastical drawings that he ended up in the dictionary.Born in Hornsey, North London, on 31st May 1872 to a family of artists, and started his career illustrating for books, but it was his comic satires during WW1 that started his famous line of ever-increasingly bizarre contraptions.
So popular were his drawings, that the term “Heath Robinson contraption” gained dictionary recognit