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The Market Gardener was situated on Upper Richmond Road, East Sheen, at the junction with Roehampton Lane. This  Watneys pub was also known as the Corner Pin and the Red Rover. Demolished in the 1990s and now replaced by flats.

Source: Chris Forester

This pub did not close in the 1990’s as it remained open for most of the 2000’s. In fact it didn’t close until around 2009 or 2010. The building still stands but is now residential flats. The conversion has been done very sympathetically, and the developers obviously chose to keep elements that indicated it had once been a pub, as there is a beautiful and ornate solid metal(unpainted) sign depicting a steam engine which hangs from the wall on Sheen Lane. This also indicated that the original main entrance would have originally been on Sheen Lane, and not on Mortlake High Street as it had been for the last 30 or so of The Railway’s existence.

Rob Tyman (November 2013)

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