https://www.kingston.gov.uk/libraries
Kingston has 7 libraries and a home library service. All branches run activities for toddlers and children, reading groups for adults and most run Silver Surfers clubs (IT for the over 50s). Hook and Chessington, Old Malden and Tudor Drive branches run knitting groups. Kingston branch has a weekly coffee morning and runs ESOL classes. Kingston and Hook and Chessington branches run ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence) classes. Hook and Chessington has a crime readers club and an art group. Old Malden branch runs a community police drop-in and Tolworth runs a family history group. The Local History and Archives centre is based at The Guildhall.