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The Quill Hotel (later The Quill), a public house, stood on the corner of Charlwood Road and Chelverton Road. Originally a coaching inn, it was built by a Putney-born solicitor and property developer, Henry Scarth. Opened in 1854, it was rebuilt in 1964, then demolished and flats built on the site in 2003. Sir Walter Besant in his London South of the Thames published in 1912 writes: “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.”
