Tickets Alert: Tours of South London’s “Bovril Castle”

A “castle” built over 200 years ago in South London has been under conservation work for the past few years, and is offering free tours of the building.Kingswood House was built in 1811, but its most famous owner was John Johnston who bought it in 1891 and added the stone facade and castle battlements that now make it so distinctive. As Johnston was also the inventor of Bovril, the house gained the nickname locally of Bovril Castle.
It later became a library but was recently handed t