South London . rden, an open air band, a lectureor concert hall, and a row of cottages beautiful to look uponare provided as a standard to which the people may rise bydegrees. There are one or two Polytechnics for the lads, and,lastly, there are the Settlements, college settlements andothers. Let me briefly describe the work and aims of one ofthese settlements. I have before me the last Report of theBrowning Settlem*. it in Walworth. It is called the BrowningSettlement because its headquarters is the chapel in YorkStreet in which Robert Browning was christened. As for their plan of work, perha
South London . rden, an open air band, a lectureor concert hall, and a row of cottages beautiful to look uponare provided as a standard to which the people may rise bydegrees. There are one or two Polytechnics for the lads, and,lastly, there are the Settlements, college settlements andothers. Let me briefly describe the work and aims of one ofthese settlements. I have before me the last Report of theBrowning Settlem*. it in Walworth. It is called the BrowningSettlement because its headquarters is the chapel in YorkStreet in which Robert Browning was christened. As for their plan of work, perhaps the aims and methodsof a settlement are not too well known for repetition. Theyarc not all the same, but the differences are slight. The SOUTH LONDON OF TO-DAY 325 directors of this settlement, for instance, desire to plant asettlement house in every poor street ; a house which shallbe inhabited by the v;orkers, men or women, and shall serveas a model for the other people in the street; example, in fact, J^j. * JftfrrvrwiMW*Ji»It 111 «? i>« •.,-?,5 • ? - -?.— •. ; mniKb ;fc>. ., . -.^-^-^r- - —- is relied upon as a potent influence. There is, or will be, alarge club house and coffee tavern for men and women, boysand girls. Once a week there is a concert in the hall. Themembers of the settlement take as large a part as possible in 326 SOUTH LONDON the local government; they have laid out a burial-ground atthe back of their hall as a garden ; they have a medicalmission which gives consultations free ; some of them are poormens lawyers ; they have introduced the University Extension ,Lectures ; they have founded thrift agencies ; they hold Sun-day afternoons for the men ; they have a maternity society ;they have a clothes store ; they have an adult school. Classesare held in hygiene, mathematics, and classics; there havebeen Shakespeare readings, music, singing, country holidays,summer camps, childrens holidays ; there is a boys brigade ;there is musical dril
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