y exercise meters, 'a full
mile,' it being 73 yards over and above the distance, an ample
allowance for ten short turnings. Of the old 'Rosamond's Bower'
three representations have been preserved; two of these are
pen-and-ink sketches by Mr. Doherty, made about the middle of the
last century, one of which is an authority for the name of Pershouse
Cross. The third view appears in a well-executed aquatint plate of
'Fulham Park School taken from the Play Ground.'

"The foundation of the present 'Rosamond's Bower,' judging from the
brickwork on the south side, and the thickness of the walls, is
probably as old as the time of Elizabeth--I mean the original
building which consisted of two rooms, one above the other, 12 feet
square, and 7 feet in height. On the north side of this primitive
dwelling was a deep draw-well. Subsequently two similar rooms were
attached, one of which (the present hall) was built over the well,
and two attics were raised upon this very simple structure, thus
increasing the number of rooms from two to six. Then a kitchen was
built (the present dining-room), and another room over it (the
present drawing-room), at the back of the original building, which
thus from a labourer's hut assumed the air of an eight-roomed
cottage. It was then discovered that the rooms were of very small
dimensions, and it was considered necessary to enlarge four of them
by the additional space to be gained from bay windows in the
dining-room, drawing-room, blue bedchamber, and dressing-room. But
the spirit of improvement seldom rests content, and when it was found
that the kitchen, which looked upon the garden, was a more agreeable
sitting-room, both as to aspect and quiet, than the more ancient and
smaller room which looked upon the road, it was determined to create
another attachment on the north side, by building a kitchen of still
larger dimensions, with a scullery and storeroom behind, to replace
the old scullery and out-offices by a spacious staircase, and over
this new kitchen to place a room of corresponding size, or equal to
that of the two bedrooms upon the same line of building. Thus in
1826 did 'Rosamond's Bower' become a cottage of ten rooms; and as it
was soon afterwards presumed from the march of luxury that no one
could live in a decade cottage without requiring a co