The Wonderful World of W. Heath Robinson

The Arts Society Leicester present Cartoons and Contraptions: The Wonderful World of W. Heath Robinson

Speaker - Barry Venning

For over a century, W. Heath Robinson has been famous for drawing rickety, bizarrely complicated devices that carry out the simplest of tasks like potato peeling, wart removal or pancake making. He became so famous for them that in 1933, he was the obvious person to illustrate Norman Hunter’s Professor Branestawm books, and, in 1943, Bletchley Park named one of their code-breaking machines after him. Much later still, some of the contraptions in Wallace and Gromit’s ‘The Wrong Trousers’ are based on a scale model of a gadget filled house W. Heath Robinson made for the Ideal Home Show in 1934.

Further Information

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Tickets

Free for members of The Arts Society Leicester
£10 for non-members (pay on the door)

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