Pub history

The Railway

This fine Victorian pub was originally a hotel built to serve the railway station opposite. It was rebuilt in 1889, three years after the tracks into the station had been quadrupled. Putney Railway Station was built in 1846 on the site of Sir Abraham Dawes’ house. Dawes, who lived here in the early 17th century, was a collector of customs. He erected the alms houses for ‘12 poor persons’, in Putney Bridge Road, which were replaced in 1861.