Corner Myrtle Road and Greyhound Road, Sutton, Surrey

Now known as the ‘Little Windsor’ to differentiate it from the other, larger, Windsor Castle pub at the cross-roads in Carshalton.

On the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map of Sutton, dated 1868, a public house called the Windsor Castle Inn is shown as being on the corner of Greyhound Road and Lind Road, opposite the site of the present New Town Inn. This must have been a precursor to the current Windsor Castle, which is a little closer towards Sutton, on the corner with Myrtle Road. The landlord is shown as G. Shildrick.

In 1870 a piece of land "with tenements in course of erection, a shop and six dwellings to be known as Nos. 1 to 7 Greyhound Road" was leased by a Samuel Gawthorp of Tottenham, for £57 per year, to James Butcher, who was a builder in Lind Road, Sutton.

The shop unit was let to Mrs A Shildrick in 1878 for £210 plus an annual rent of £10. She obviously ran the business, which according to the local directories was called the Windsor Castle for around ten years before the lease was transferred to Edward Boniface, owner of the Cheam Brewery, in 1889. The reason for the move of the Windsor Castle may have been the opening of a newer and better pub, the New Town Inn, on the opposite side of Greyhound Road. There was no New Town Inn listed in the 1869 directory of Sutton, but it was certainly trading by 1872.

In 1922 ownership of the Windsor Castle was acquired by Dr. Gordon Kirwan-Taylor, who lived at Stowford, the large house in Brighton Road, Sutton, now used as a College. Dr Kirwan-Taylor sold it to the brewers Charringtons in 1949. Throughout this time the same licensee, E.J.R. Quick, presided over the bar