LEARN about French glass artist Rene Lalique and his Art Noveau jewellery through a talk to be given by jeweller David Callaghan.
The Frenchman, who lived between 1860 and 1945, is the subject of the free lecture organised by Harrow National Trust Association.
Lalique's designs became acclaimed after making jewels for Sarah Bernhardt and then exhibiting at the great Paris exhibitions of 1894 and 1900 and in turn he attracted the attention of Calouste Gulbenkian, who purchased over 150 major items of jewellery from him, of which many are now exhibited in the Portuguese capital Lisbon.
From 1900 onwards he concentrated on works in glass and Lalique glass is still made today to his original designs and patterns.

Where? Harrow Arts Centre, Uxbridge Road, Hatch End
When? 8pm on Monday, September 6
Cost? Free
Contact? See the talk programme at www.hanta.btik.com

AN EXHIBITION called 'Life-on-the-Hill in 20 Faces' runs until Thursday June 17 at Harrow School's Old Speech Room Gallery in High Street.
The 24 portraits, completed in a one day marathon session by South Harrow artist Dan Llywelyn Hall, can be seen for free daily between 2pm and 5pm.

QUESTION local police chiefs at the next meeting of the Harrow Police and Community Consultative Group on Thursday June 3 at 7.30pm at Harrow Civic Centre, Station Road, Harrow.
Chief Inspector Nick Davies will give a presentation on the borough;s new police initiatives.

HARROW on the Hill's heritage association, the Harrow Hill Trust, is asking gardeners and allotment holders to bring plant to sell or swap at a charity fundraiser.
Proceeds from the event, on Sunday, May 16, between 2pm and 4pm at Meadow Neighbours Garden, in Waldron Road, Harrow on the Hill, will go to the Tanglewood Club, which provides leisure activities for adults with learning difficulties.
The club is now based at Harrow Borough FC's Earlsmead Stadium in Earlsmead, South Harrow, after an appeal run by the Observer that followed it being booted out of its old home.

POPPING out for a pint proved lucky for one visitor to a Harrow on the Hill pub when he scooped a quintessential London day out in a prize draw.
The White Horse in Middle Road sold the winning pint of Fuller's brewery's ESB ale to customer Neil Proud which meant he and his partner Pauline got to be a chauffeured around the city before Neil was fitted for a suit from a Saville Row tailor and bagged a pair of English brogues.

ONE of Britain's oldest photographic studios - in Harrow on the Hill - can be demolished, councillors agreed.
The building, known simply as The Studio, was built in the middle of the 19th Century and is, according to reports, in a "very poor state of repair and not structurally sound".
This two-storey timber structure, which is locally listed, sits in a courtyard behind 104 High Street in Harrow on the Hill, the former branch of Hills and Saunders photographic studios.
The company documented life in the borough during the 20th Century and part of the 19th Century and was commissioned by Harrow School to take portraits of its schoolboys.
It has a dark room on the lower ground floor and a photographic studio on the first.
Although the council's conservation area advisory committee told councillors The Studio was the oldest in the country, Harrow School archivist Rita Boswell said: "That's not actually accurate. Before Hills and Saunders there was Goshawk, who was the local taxidermist and thought this new-fangled technology called photography could make him some money. Hills and Saunders bought him out."
Proposals to tear down the structure and build an exact replica, along with a two-storey detached block containing two flats and one house, was approved by Harrow Council's planning committee on Wednesday (13/01) after the authority's own conservation officer advised the studio was not worth saving given its present condition.
The application, lodged by Thomas Harriss, of Northwood, sought to renew planning permission that was obtained in 2004 and had expired.

The Old Speech Room Gallery Arts Society are holding a Japanese Prints Exhibition from 19th January 0 27th June 2010.

Harrow School are displaying great works from the past. The displays will be available to see from 19th January - 27th June 2010.

A FORMER Mayor of Harrow is leading the fight for the fourth time against potentially lucrative plans to replace five large houses with flats.
John Branch, of Sudbury Court Drive, Harrow, who served 12 years as a Liberal Democrat councillor on Harrow Council before retiring at the 2006 elections, started a 75-signature petition objecting to plans to replace 1 to 5 Sudbury Hill, Harrow, with a three storey block of 64 apartments above a basement car park.

A NUMBER of seasonal events being hosted across the borough in the run up to Christmas.
Plenty of people will wrap up warm to gather around the Christmas tree in Harrow on the Hill for the traditional community carol concert.