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 recorded by Richmond & Hounslow branch that have ceased to exist since 1990: