nd the church is an old wooden farmhouse, the last of many that
formerly dotted these fields.

Passing eastwards, the Upper Road leads to the Charlwood Road, and
across the railway-bridge the new streets, Norroy and Chelverton Roads,
have been made as far as the High Street through the grounds of The
Lawn, an old house which stood next the Spotted Horse. To the west short
roads have been pushed out into the market-gardens, and north, at the
angle, stands the Quill Inn, behind which Quill Alley, a narrow paved
passage skirting the backs of the houses, leads into a labyrinth of
small streets set at all angles and of all degrees of respectability.
There are many newly-built flats on either side of Quill Alley. Every
foot of ground is taken up, and from the Coopers' Arms to Gardeners'
Lane the district is compact with small houses and shops. Here in
Walker's Place, a square of old houses, with gardens in front, under the
shadow of an enormous brewery, was formerly a little wooden tumbledown
inn known as the Coat and Badge. This has been rebuilt; it was so called
from the insignia of the actor Doggett's annual prize for Thames
watermen. At the end of this lane stands an old hostelry, the Coopers'
Arms, and at the end of Gardeners' Lane was another, the Bull and Star,
also rebuilt recently. Gardeners' Lane leads through a closely built up
settlement to the Whirlpool, and here the last remnant of the
market-gardens is to be found.

In the High Street, which is fast altering its character, there are one
or two old houses, but the greater number are modern. The Public
Library, which is situate in Disraeli Road, leading off the High Street,
was first established in 1887. It is only since 1899 that it has
occupied its present building, which, with the site, was the gift of Sir
George Newnes, Bart., M.P., and was opened by the late Lord Russell of
Killowen, Lord Chief Justice of England.

To the east of the High Street the residential part of Putney is built
up of new, clean streets, laid out on the market-gardens and orchards
that till recently occupied most of this district.

In Northfield Square stood several fine old houses, one of which,
Fairfax House, made way for the Montserrat Road at its High Street end;
and another, Grove House, said to originally have been a convent, and
associated by tradition with the name of Oliver Cromwell, disappeared
when the western end of Disraeli Road was made. The railway-station
adjoining