There is a London Pubs website that links to individual pubs and then includes extracts from old trade directories for the town/village concerned + lists of tradesmen and notable inhabitants. Have not been able to find it today - it had a lot of Essex pubs - not sure if Surrey/Kingston has been included. I expect someone from the list knows what I'm talking about! Your best bets (and not on line, sorry) are probably 1. Google for "Kingston upon Thames" and local studies 2. Licensing applications = probably held at LMA. There is a published guide to the whereabouts of various applications. You can google to find it 3. Old newspapers, either local library or the Newspaper Library at Colindale 4. Old trade directories - Guildhall Library has an excellent collection or try the "historical directories" site hosted by Leicester university. Kingston library probably has some as well 5. I believe there is a CD of the 1834-24 edition of Pigots Directory that costs about a fiver. It's not fully searchable but you'll be able to find the pubs and publicans 6. Might be interesting, given its position, to find out who actually owned the pub as well Hilary > Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 12:52:28 -0000 > From: "Chew G" <G.Chew@rhul.ac.uk> > Subject: Re: [SRY] Surrey Pubs [was Wheatsheaf and Barley > Mow, Mount >     St] > To: <eng-surrey@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: >     <E5F8E4518B68AA439EE1BDFCF08ABE7103638EB9@EXCH-DB-02.cc.rhul.local> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Is there any historical info either on the web or elsewhere > about pubs in Kingston?  (Since this list had pubs as > its monthly topic in Jan 2007, when I made a query about my > 2x greatgrandfather Charles CHADWICK, I've found out that he > was the landlord of the King's Arms in Lion Gate, next to > Hampton Court Palace, during the 1790s. They have a web > page, but with minimal info.) > > Geoff > > Geoffrey Chew > g.chew@rhul.ac.uk > > ________________________________