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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 20. 1905.
CONTENTS.-No. 73.
NOTES : Westminster Changes in 1904, 381' Capt. Thomas Stukeley,' 382 The Rev. James' Sterling, 385 Horace Walpole's Letters" Skunk," 386' The Law List ' Rey- nolds's Group of Fane, Jones, and Blair Hollicke or Holleck, co. Middlesex, 387.
QUERIES : Lincoln Civic Insignia : the Mayor's Ring, 387 Chester Plea Rolls C. Mason, Royalist Divine White- hall Matted Gallery" Purdonium "Lincoln Inventory, 388 Ninths "For a God Yow "Vixens and Drunken- ness Major John Miller Maxwell of Ardwell Ralph Rabbards, 389" Blancs Chaperons " at Ghent Robart Tidir, 390.
REPLIES : -Danish Surnames "Beating the Bounds," 390 Anchorites' Dens, 391 Laurel Crowns at Olympia Armorial Bearings, 392 Amberskins : Chocolate Recipe D.N.B.' Index Jennings Arms St. Julian's Pater Noster " England," "English": their Pronunciation- Local 'Notes and Queries,' 393 Bibliographies Maiden Lane, Maiden Apothecaries' Act of 1815 Twins Irish Soil Exported, 394 Wooden Fonts Mr. Moxhay, Leices- ter Square Toastmaster Governor Stephenson, 395 Rogestvensky, 396 Theatre, Parkgate Norman Inscrip- tions in Yorkshire Picking up Scraps of Iron, 397 Unmarried Lady's Coat of Arms Navy Office Seal, 398.
NOTES ON BOOKS : Lang on John Knox ' Quarterly Review.'
Booksellers' Catalogues.
Notices to Correspondents.
WESTMINSTER CHANGES IN 1904.
IT is rather more than twelve months since I recorded (10 th S. i. 263) the changes that had taken place in Westminster in 1903, and now I would record those of 1904.
In Millbank Street the houses, warehouses, and wharves stand much as they did in the previous year. The premises formerly occu- pied by Messrs. J. Bazley White have been let, I presume temporarily, to the Salvation Army for the purpose of the social scheme. On the other side of the street, the houses from the corner of Wood Street to No. 30, Millbank Street, and extending back to Horse and Groom Yard (excepting Craw- ford's forge, which is, however, empty), were sold on 29 November, and by the end of the year were approaching demolition, but Nos. 32 and 34 were still left standing. No. 26 (which was, as before stated, in the occupation of Messrs. Mary Mallock & Sons from 1800) is among the demolished premises, and the old firm has migrated to 56 and 57, Marsham Street, close to Mr. Alexander Fitzgerald, another old Millbank Street trader. Up to the end of the year Horse and Groom Yard, a narrow thoroughfare leading from Wood Street into Church
Street, remained intact, although all the
premises situated there were empty. The
work of pulling down at this spot is still
going forward. At the close of the year
Nos. 5 to 23, Wood Street had the hoarding
up ready for the demolition which is now
completed. Nos. 1, 13, 20, and 21, North
Street were empty, the last (a public-house
at the corner of Wood Street) having
since been pulled down. The ground
formerly occupied by Nos. 3, 4, and 5, Cowley
Street, and extending through to, and in-
cluding, Nos. 14 and 15, Great College Street,
has been cleared, and, according to The
Builder of 19 November, will form the site of
the new offices of the North-Eastern Railway
Company, the old offices at 31, Great George
Street being required by the Government.
I In this house Lord Hatherley lived and died.
i Anything new in this locality is to be
| deplored, but from the illustration of the
i south front in Cowley Street appearing in
i The Builder it is pleasing to note that the
| architect, Mr. Horace Field, has done his
best to preserve the associations of the old in
the building now being erected. The huge
building for the Ecclesiastical Commissioners
goes on rather slowly, not much progress
being perceptible in the year. At the other
end of Great College Street, the house for the
Society of St. John the Evangelist, or Cowley
Fathers, was nearly finished at the end of
the year, while the new building adjoining,
for Westminster School, though not so for-
ward, was going on satisfactorily. The latter
covers a part of the old passage known as
Black Dog Alley.
In Great Smith Street some extensive works have been proceeding. A portion of the road way by the Library has been set back to improve the line of the street ; and the ground formerly occupied by Nos. 14, 16, 18, 20, and 22 has been cleared, and upon it has been erected a large building, to be known as Parliament Chambers, residential flats having shops underneath, now fast nearing completion. No. 14, Great Smith Street was for many years in the occupation of the late Mr. Henry Poole, a well-known statuary and marble mason, and latterly the master mason to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. At No. 22 many years ago resided a pewterer named Davenport, famous all over London for the quality of his wares. He and his wife were very quaint specimens of a bygone age, much respected in Westminster. In llomney Street, from the corner of Church Passage, leading into Smith Square, all the houses to No. 38 were cleared by April, 1904. In Smith Square four houses (Nos. 19 to 22)
