The Pinner pub landlord who kept a bear – and took it for walks

There are plenty of unusual stories buried in Harrow’s past, but this one is probably up there with the strangest. More than a century ago, the landlord of The Queen’s Head in Pinner is said to have kept a bear in the stables behind the pub – and even took it out for walks. The
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