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Britannia Road, SURBITON, KT5 8TS

The pub has two signs, one on the frontage to Britannia Road and this one, which is on the frontage to King Charles Road. This is the more interesting because it has a further sign above the picture of a castle. From a distance the sign above looks like a clock but in fact it is a brewery sign. Around the edge it says: "Watney Combe Reid 1898". Watney Combe & Reid were an amalgamation of three brewers formed in 1898, and they based their brewing operations at Watney's Stag Brewery at Victoria, London. This explains why in the middle of the sign there is a picture of a stag which is very faded but can be seen when the photograph is enlarged. The firm became London's largest brewer for many years but the brewery closed in 1958 when they transferred brewing to the brewery of a company they had taken over and changed their name to Watney Mann. Watney Combe & Reid were particularly well-known for brewing Watney's Brown Ale and Hammerton Oatmeal Stout. An interesting historical relict, of which there are probably very few left, particularly as Watneys ceased to exist in 1979. Image

Large public house on the corner of King Charles Road and Britannia Road. In the past it was a Watney's house. The parts nearest the camera are in Ordnance Survey square TQ1867, the section further along King Charles Road is in square TQ1866. Image

The church is an Anglican one, although that fact isn't very obvious on its own website, as far as I can see. It comes under the Diocese of Southwark and was built in 1863 and soon extended. Now it needs further space and improvement so a large fundraising effort is underway. This view was taken from Britannia Road. Image

A large Anglican church dating from 1863, on the corner of King Charles Road and Christ Church Road. Image

Another of Surbiton's traditional 'local boozers'. A Gales Brewery pub with a good range of their beers. The Fuller's sandwich board shows evidence of the new owners with a hint that you should enjoy Gales beers whilst you can.

Fishponds Park is a small public park in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. Sometimes it is described as in Tolworth and sometimes as in Surbiton; the two areas being adjacent. The black bin is a litter bin and the red one is for dog waste.

Fishponds Park contains three ponds, a stream and an area of grassland now managed as a hay meadow. On a map of 1762 this site is shown as a brick kiln and was part of Kingston Common, which stretched between Hook, Tolworth and Surbiton. By 1839 most of the land had been taken over as allotments, although a brickworks is still shown on the 1867 Ordnance Survey Map. Fishponds itself is a plain Georgian house built in 1742. This is one of the smaller ponds.

Fishponds Park contains three ponds, a stream and an area of grassland now managed as a hay meadow. On a map of 1762 this site is shown as a brick kiln and was part of Kingston Common, which stretched between Hook, Tolworth and Surbiton. By 1839 most of the land had been taken over as allotments, although a brickworks is still shown on the 1867 Ordnance Survey Map. Fishponds itself is a plain Georgian house built in 1742. I am unsure if this carved tree trunk has been damaged or was originally standing up.

Fishponds Park contains three ponds, a stream and an area of grassland now managed as a hay meadow. On a map of 1762 this site is shown as a brick kiln and was part of Kingston Common, which stretched between Hook, Tolworth and Surbiton. By 1839 most of the land had been taken over as allotments, although a brickworks is still shown on the 1867 Ordnance Survey Map. Fishponds itself is a plain Georgian house built in 1742. This is the largest of the three ponds.

On Ewell Road, Surbiton.