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The inventor who became a national catchphrase

When illustrator William Heath Robinson escaped to Cranleigh, he ended up creating some of his most delightfully bonkers inventions.

When illustrator William Heath Robinson escaped to Cranleigh, he ended up creating some of his most delightfully bonkers inventions.

Simon Furber visits the village to discover how the master of comic contraptions became a national byword for the gloriously bodged and brilliantly over complicated.

Image: The art of William Heath Robinson (Getty Images)

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7 minutes