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Derby Arms
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The Derby Arms was situated at 565 Upper Richmond Road. This pub closed in the 1970s and was converted into flats. |
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Source: Chris Forester |
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My Great Grand Uncle Henry John Inman was listed in the 1911 census as
publican here. I am assuming that the pub had a billiard/snooker room as he
had been a billiard room proprietor at several pubs prior to this date. He
was part of a big billiards family (his nephew/my great uncle Melbourne was
a world champion 5 times over). He died in April 1915 while still living
there and is buried in East Sheen Cemetery. Previous census returns show him
at: The Star, Bishops Stortford (1871) and Middleton Arms,
Battersea (1881-1901). I remember the Derby Arms as a kid going past it
every day to school without knowing my connection! |
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Bob Inman (July 2013) |
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I think The Derby Arms may have closed in the
early 1980’s rather than the 1970’s as listed here. I never visited it, but
having grown up in East Sheen, and since returned several years ago, I
definitely remember this pub being around (as a child) until about 1984. I
don’t know the exact year it closed but I’m pretty sure it was in the
1980’s. |
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Rob Tyman (November 2013) |
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This pub has now been converted to residential
use. |
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T C
(September 2014) |
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My grandparents, Mr and Mrs Clement Potter were tenants here in the fifties,
retiring in the mid 1960's. I took my aging grandma there later a few weeks
before it closed. This was in Summer 1989. She died later that year. |
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Michelle Hatcher (December 2014) |
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The local story was that the Derby Arms
closed soon after the drink-driving laws came in. Until then, people in pubs
in Richmond, which closed at 10:30, would pile into their cars and drive
over the border into "London" where pubs stayed open into 11, for a last
couple of pints before driving home again. And the first pub across the
boundary was the Derby Arms, which lost half its trade at a stroke. |
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Wigan (October 2020) |
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