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the periodical cleaning of the two stones is paid for by a gentleman who visits the grave two or three times a year, and who placed on it the wreath above referred to. So that in 1904, no less than in 1874, Joanna Southcott has a follower who, if he does not " look forward to her return to life," at least wishes to do something towards keeping her memory green. F. W. BEAD.

On 27 August, 1887, I visited the burial- ground attached to St. John's Wood Chapel for the purpose of trying to find the grave of Joanna Southcott. I searched the place pretty thoroughly several times, but could find no memorial of any kind relating to Joanna. I think, therefore, the tombstone which marked her grave cannot have been replaced after being shattered by theexplosion in 1874.

In ' Old and New London," v. 253, Mr. Walford says :

" Her remains were first moved to an undertaker's in Oxford Street, whence they were taken secretly for interment in this cemetery. A tablet to her memory contains these lines :

While through all thy wondrous days, Heaven and earth enraptured gaze ; While vain sages think they know Secrets thou alone canst show ; Time alone will tell what hour Thou 'It appear to greater power.

Sabineus."

I have seen it stated that Joanna Southcott was buried under a fictitious name. Is this true? JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

WESTMINSTER CHANGES IN 1903. (See ante, p. 263.)

I STATED at 9 th S. x. 263 that the ground bounded by " Millbank Street, Great College Street, Little College Street, and Wood Street is already scheduled," and at the reference previously given in this note that the " houses are all down and the ground nearly cleared," with the exception of the houses Nos. 2 and 4, Millbank Street. I can now add that that stage has been passed, for those two houses were pulled down some months ago, and the foundations are now being got in for a building destined to be the palatial home of the Ecclesiastical Com- missioners, and most probably of other societies as well. It is designed by, I believe, Mr. W. D. Caroe, the contractors being Messrs. J. E. Johnson & Son, of Leicester and 11, Little College Street. This building will be a great ornament to the neighbour- hood, and will be well seen from the new

ornamental gardens opposite, and from the river, which it will front.

At the corner of Little College Street, and standing upon the site of Nos. 10, 11 and 12, Great College Street, lately removed, has been erected a somewhat peculiar building for the offices of the Lancashire and York- shire Eailway Company, which had been previously housed at No. 1, Great College- Street. At the other end of the latter street a notable clearance has been made for the- purpose of erecting buildings to afford extra accommodation for Westminster School, the- ground being cleared from No. 15, Barton Street round to the Drill Hall of the- Volunteer Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers in Tufton Street, a building itself only a few- years old.

At the corner of Great College Street, opposite the entrance to Dean's Yard, was- " Sutcliffe's, the immortal " tuck shop " of many generations of Westminster scholars, concerning which there are many good andf quaint stories on record, as the old scholars delight to tell them at every opportunity. There were also two other notable shops ir> this street, at either corner of Black Dog Alley, now done away with, one being. Martin's, from which boots and shoes, rackets, balls, and such-like goods were supplied to the scholars for many years, and the other Ginger's, which supplied school- books and stationery for a long series of years. The proprietor was somewhat of a droll, and full of eccentricities,, and was well known to my own family a couple of gene- rations back. This house was burnt down some years ago, and rebuilt, but has now gone for good.

The house built at No. 11, Tufton Street, for the Westminster Female Refuge, has been opened, but the other land cleared at this- spot is still unutilized.

In Great Smith Street Nos. 22 to 14 are- empty, and likely to be cleared away at an early date. No. 12 has been used as the- entrance to the stables of the Duke of Buccleuch, who has had to make several moves on account of the various changes in the neighbourhood ; and Nos. 10 and 8, lately rebuilt, are now a meter-testing depot of the- L.C.C., and extend back to St. Anne's Street (formerly Lane), where there is an outlet. In the latter-named thoroughfare a building numbered 15, 16, and 17 has been erected by Messrs. Harborow, the shirt-makers of New Bond Street, and is devoted to workshops, which were occupied early last year.

In Rochester Row Nos. 11, 13, and 15i. occupied by Mr. A. Smellie, wholesale and