Historic Club Venues

Approximate DatesVenue
-1879The Bridge Foot
1880-The Working Men’s Institute and Club, Fairfield Road
1910Thames Valley Café, Clarence Street
-1927The Scotch Café, Kingston Bridge
1927Ye Old Poste House
~1929Zeeta Café (previously the Scotch Café)
1937Penrhyn House (damaged by enemy bombing in 1940)
1940The drawing room of Dr T.W. Letchworth, the club president
1941Penrhyn House
1947Tiffin Boys’ School
1951Richmond Road County School
1964Bonner Hill Road School
~1967Kingston Workmen’s Club, London Road
Nov 1970All Saint’s Church Hall, Ashdown Road
Feb 1971The Castle pub, the Fairfield
Late 1971The Grove Tavern, off Hawkes Road
~1972The Friends’ Meeting House, Eden Street
2003The Royal Oak pub, New Malden
2007-May 2012The Friends’ Meeting House, Eden Street
Sep 2012Asda Superstore, Roehampton Lane
Sep 2015The Druids Head, Market Square
Sep 2019The Willoughby Arms
March 2020 – July 2021Zoom (during Covid pandemic)
July 2021- present:The Willoughby Arms

At the 2017 AGM, Ken Inwood spoke about his early years of playing at Tiffin School where he learned chess at the age of 10. He reminisced that the best years for Kingston CC were when it played at Richmond Road Junior School. The period at the Working Mens’ Club was also good but the club left when the venue became too noisy.


Ye Olde Post House was close to the Market Square