Pub and Brewery History
"From the towns all inns have been driven; from the villages most...
Change your hearts, or you will lose your inns, and you will deserve to have lost them. But when you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves - for you will have lost the last of England." Hilaire Belloc, "From This and that on Inns", 1912
The world is forever changing; buildings, people, beer and breweries come and go. The sad thing is, that the changes are not always for the better. With Government legislation, Businesses chasing profits and today's lifestyles are all causing more pubs to close or change their purpose. Local communities are becoming more fragmented or disappear all together. CAMRA is doing a lot of work to halt or slow this decline. Becoming a CAMRA member does more that just keeping Real Ale available in this country.
There is a growing band of people that see our pub heritage as something to be celebrated and preserved. There is also a need to record the disappearance of these pubs for posterity. Complete or near complete historic pub interiors are now a very great rarity. The CAMRA National Inventory of Pub Interiors of Outstanding Heritage Interest aims to raise public awareness. The London-based historian Dr Geoff Brandwood has done much to further this aim. In 2004 the regional Inventory stated that 134 of London's 5,700 pubs have interiors with heritage value.
There are many pubs in this and surrounding areas that have disappeared from the map. It is hoped that some of these establishments can be recorded on this site as information and pictures come to hand. So if you have or can access pictures and supporting facts we would be very please to hear from you. [Feedback]
Pubs (pre boundary changes in October 2017) recorded by Richmond & Hounslow branch that have ceased to exist since ~1990:
- Barnes
- Waterman's Arms (restaurant)
- Bedfont
- Black Dog (redeveloped)
- Royal Oak (demolished)
- Brentford
- North Star (Private Club)
- Windmill (demolished)
- Plough (demolished)
- New England (aka Duke of York) (boarded-up)
- Pottery Arms (boarded-up)
- Bricklayers Arms (residential)
- Waggon & Horses (to be demolished)
- George & Dragon (demolished)
- O'Riordans
- Princess Royal
- Kew Stable
- East Molesey
- Sextons at Hampton Court
- Olde Toy
- Feltham
- Feltham Hotel (community Centre)
- Prince of Wales (demolished)
- Locomotive (demolished)
- Railway Tavern (demolished)
- Crown & Sceptre (Tesco Express)
- Sawyers Arms (demolished)
- The Mansion (formerly Rose &Crown)
- Ham
- Crooked Billet (dwellings)
- Fox & Goose (dwellings)
- Water Gipsies (childrens' nursery)
- Royal Oak (to be a dwelling?)
- Ham Brewery Tap
- Hampton
- White Hart (dwellings)
- Railway Hotel (dwellings)
- Dukes Head (dwellings)
- Hampton Hill
- Duke of Wellington (dwellings)
- Jolly Gardeners (dwellings)
- Jenny Lind (KFC takaway restaurant)
- Hampton Wick
- Rose & Crown (restaurant)
- Railway (dwellings)
- Hanworth
- Brown Bear (demolished 1980)
- Jolly Sailor (demolished)
- Hope & Anchor (demolished)
- Oxford Arms (demolished)
- New Moon (to be demolished)
- Horse & Groom (Tesco Express)
- Swan
- Hounslow
- Hussar Bar & Restaurant (COU approved)
- Warren (now Tesco Express)
- Queen Arms (ex Greyhound - demolished)
- Queen Victoria (demolished)
- Tankerville (demolished)
- Earl Russell
- Shannons
- The Rifleman (now a restaurant)
- Jolly Farmer
- Blue Ginger Bar ex South Western (to be a restaurant?)
- Duke of Wellington (converted into a Sainsbury's Local)
- Bar 113 (converted to an Indian Restaurant)
- Windmill (renamed Manzil Lounge. Asian Restaurant/Bar/Club & Shisha Lounge)
- Isleworth
- Inn on The Square (offices)
- Harlequin (shop)
- Labouring Boys (demolished)
- Kings Arms (redevelopment started)
- Triple Crown (demolished)
- Rose & Crown (boarded up)
- County Arms (demolished)
- George (Freehold sold)
- Kew
- Kings Arms (restaurant)
- Mortlake
- Lord Napier (dwellings)
- Railway (dwellings?)
- Charlie Butler (demolished for dwellings)
- Richmond
- Bricklayers Arms (shop)
- The Imperial (Building Society)
- The Duke of York (Thai restaurant)
- Bishops Finger (dwellings)
- Black Horse
- Blue Anchor (dwellings)
- Hole in the Wall
- Three Pigeons (demolished now dwellings)
- Shakespeare (to be dwellings)
- Sheen, East
- Bull (demolished and shop development built - inc. The Pig &
Whistle pub)
- Derby Arms (dwellings)
- Market Gardener (vacant?)
- Queens Arms (converted into 3 houses - tiled pub fascia retained)
- Spur (demolished and block of flats built)
- Black Horse
- Teddington
- Horse & Groom (pizza restaurant)
- Queen Dowager (demolished for dwellings)
- Royal Oak (sold to CÔTE Restaurant Group)
- Waldegrave Arms ?
- Builders Arms ?
- Twickenham
- Nelson (later fish restaurant)
- Cherry Tree (demolished)
- Dukes Head
- Austin's Bar and Restaurant (Dwellings)
- Red Lion (Tesco Metro)
- Old Anchor (closed 28th April 2014)
- Mulberry Tree (closed 2016 to be a restaurant)
Breweries past and present
There are now seven breweries known to be currently in operation within our–now expanded–branch area.
- Asahi UK Ltd, Griffin Brewery, Chiswick Lane South. W4 2QB
- Twickenham Fine Ales was founded by Steve Brown when he opened a Micro Brewery in late October 2004. Twickenham Fine Ales was the first brewery in Twickenham since Cole’s Brewery closed in 1906. In 2012 to expand their operations they moved into new premises close by and sold their original 10 barrel plant. The brewery now has a custom made 25BBL kit and six fermenters, so can brew over 50,000 pints a week. Twickenham now brew 20 beers a year; 4 regulars, 4 seasonals and 12 monthly specials that are available across London and some surrounding areas. The most recent addition to Twickenham’s product line has been the their 'Old Hands' branded craft/keg beers.
A Brewery shop and 'Rugby Day Bar' was opened in November 2013. Twickenham Fine Ales acquired their first pub in the Summer of 2019. The Rifleman, on Fourth Cross Rd, is a small, cosy pub.
- Jeffersons Brewery is situated in Barnes, SW London.
- Jawbone Brewery, Unit C, 2 Strawberry Vale, Twickenham, TW1 4RY.
- Fearless Nomad brewery in the Black Dog Beer House at Brentford.
- Tiny Vessel Brewery was established at the end of 2016 as an experimental project and located in Unit 505, Platt’s Eyot, Lower Sunbury Road, Hampton, Middlesex. TW12 2HF
- Ealing Brewing. Unit 2 The Ham, Brentford. W8 8EX.
- Workshy Brewing Ltd, Cardigan Road, Richmond, Greater London. TW10 6BW.
The last local brewery in recent history was the Isleworth Brewery Company Limited, 1866 - 1920. This brewery was originally Farnell and Watson's and later in 1923 became Watney Combe Reid & Co. It was reduced to a bottling store in 1958. Evidence of this once long gone local brewery can still be seen in the etched glass of The London Apprentice, Isleworth. The Greyhound, W12 also contain tiling and ornaments from its former Isleworth Brewery owners. A metal post footing outside The Prince of Wales, Twickenham, also suggest a link to the this brewery as does a glass window advertising 'Isleworth Ales' at the Queen's Head in Brook Green, Hammersmith.
The following news stories and Pub History web sites may be of interest:
The Lost Pubs Project - www.closedpubs.co.uk
Pub History Society - www.pubhistorysociety.co.uk
Brief History of the Pub
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3692569.stm
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3040642.stm
