"The Light Horse" Heston - completed thanks

[Siouxzie]

Hi,
I wonder if anyone with local Middlesex knowledge can help me.  My great great grandfather Robert Waters was publican at "The Light Horse" Heston for a time.  On the 1871 census he is there RG10/1314 folio 44 page 17.  Also it is his place of residence at the time of his death in 1877 according to his death certificate.  I am presuming this pub no longer exists because I have failed to find anything about it by googling.  Does anyone have any local knowledge about this public house or know how I could come by some info.  I'd really love a picture.

Siouxzie

[Little Nell]

Hi Siouxzie

I suggest that you contact the Local Studies Library in Hounslow

Hounslow Library
24 Treaty Centre
Hounslow High Street
Middlesex, TW3 1ES.
Tel: 0845 456 2800
Fax: 0845 456 2880

They may be able to direct you to a photograph.  Unless the pub changed its name to something else, it has almost certainly gone.  Hounslow/Heston area has undergone huge transformations in recent years.

Nell

[jorose]

1901 directory of London shows the Light Horse Inn, A. J. Benn, Staines Road, Hounslow Heath - this I think is the same place as 1874 directory says Robert Walter Waters is at the Light Horse, Staines Rd, Hounslow.  It also appears in a 1914 directory - Light Horse inn, 367 Staines Road (Henry Goodman).

(all from www.historicaldirectories.org)

In 1872, according to The Times, a Trooper Matthews of the 7th Hussars was summoned at the Brentford Petty Sessions, for assaulting Police-Constable W.Smith in Staines Road.  He and another soldier had been drinking at the Light Horse with two girls, and they claimed that the Constable had told the girls not to talk to the 'flogging seventh', and that the Constable had hit Trooper Matthews first.

Presumably the name, the Light Horse, came from the fact that the Hussars drank there (Hussars = light cavalry).  Their barracks were on Hounslow Heath (I think they might still be there).  The nickname 'flogging seventh', incidentally, might come from the death in 1846 of a soldier of the 7th Hussars at Hounslow, after he was sentenced to flogging at a court-martial.

[Siouxzie]

Hi jorose and Nell,
Thanks for your help.  Hounslow is the birth place given for my great gran and some of her siblings.  Thanks for the historical directories link I shall look.  Also thanks for the local studies address. jorose I loved the bit of colour, you supplied.

Siouxzie