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Minster "ante hostium chori " ('Test. Ebor.' iii. 160, note ; and 'Old Yorkshire,' ed. by Wra. Smith, New Series, 1889).

William Pynchbeck was on 23 October, 1510, murdered near Selby in Yorkshire (Surtees Soc., 1837, vol. i. pp. 58 and 222).

John Pinchback, A.M., was licensed to St. James's, Duke's Place, Aldgate, 11 March, 1686 (Newc., ' Rep ,' i. 917 ; ' Keg. Compt.,' 94).

Christopher Pinchbeck, the clockmaker, who lived in Albemarle Street, London, in 1721, finds a place in 'D.N.B.' See also W. Thornbury's 'Old and New London,' vol. ii. pp. 333-4 ; and 'N. & Q.,' 2 nd S. xii. 81 ; 6 th S. i. 241.

In 1770 John Pinchbeck, or Pinchback, was curate of Northall in the diocese of St. Albans (Newc., 'Hep ,' i. 850).

H. W. UNDKBDOWK.

WESTMINSTER CHANGES IN 1904. (See ante, p. 381.)

Nos. 59, 61, and 63, Douglas Street, and Nos. 2 to 10 (even numbers), Edward Street, adjoining, were demolished in April, 1904, and upon the ground thus vacant another Brabazon House, under the same manage- ment and control as the one in Moreton Street, was started for the same class of tenants as the older one, and it should prove equally successful. On the opposite side of Edward Street, Nos. 1 to 5 (odd numbers), together with shop premises, Nos. 88 and 90, at the corner of Yauxhall Bridge Road, were pulled down in May, and upon a portion of the ground so cleared Messrs. J. Daymond & Son, architectural modellers and sculptors, have put up a building adjoining their old premises. In Chapter Street, quite early in the year, some new workshops for Messrs. Holland & Sons were opened. In Dorset Street, a thoroughfare which is to be re- named, " Walker, London," shirt and collar dressers, occupied their new premises, that firm having been displaced at Church Street, Smith Square, by the impending changes at Millbank.

The alterations at the Westminster City Council's wharf at Grosvenor Road, which had been in hand for some time, were com- pleted last year. While in this neighbour- hood, a word or two about Yauxhall Bridge may not be deemed inappropriate. We all know that it is not yet finished, and will not be for some time, and the London County Council seems at last to realize that the work is making very slow progress. In 1895 par- liamentary powers were obtained for "the construction of the bridge ; on 22 February,

1898, a resolution was passed by the Council? sanctioning the bridge; in November, 1902, an announcement was made that the new bridge- which had been sanctioned had been designed on wrong principles ; and on 20 October, 1903, the contract for the new bridge was given out. Surely a rather long record this, in bridge- building, and very little to show for the time occupied.

Nos. 92 to 96 (even numbers) Vauxhall Bridge Road were pulled down in July, and' up to the close of the year the ground had not. been utilized. In Hyde Place, Vincent Square, on Wednesday, 13 July, the foundation of the- Napier Memorial was laid by Mrs. Napier, the widow of the Rev. George Napier, vicar of St. Mary's Church, Yincent Square, long known as St. Mary's, Tothill Fields. The building is to be used as a church club, and the centre from which many organizations - are to be worked. It was opened on a " dark, cheerless, muddy evening," 1 December, by the Bishop of London, who passed many well- deserved encomiums upon the late vicar, of whom he said that he '' never missed a friend more truly than he did George Napier." The- building was designed by Mr. Allen, an old Westminster boy.

In Rochester Row the "Village Street" some changes of note are to be recorded. - Business was started in the first half of Mr. Smellie's new premises on 1 September. The other portion of the old building was at once demolished, and the erection of the remainder - proceeded with. The structure is substan- tially built and is a distinct gain to this, improving locality. In the same thorough- fare, on the other side of the way, on the- ground formerly occupied by Nos. 60 to (>6 (even numbers), a very interesting and picturesque building has been erected, and; named Ruskin House, by Messrs. W. Morris & Co., of Brompton Road. The centre - portion is in their own occupation as a . depot, &c., for mosaics, tiles, stained glass, while there is a shop on either side. The- building extends through into Coburg Row, . where the goods entrance is situated and where there are several floors let as work- shops, and also the Mansion Company's motor garage. The ground rent is said to be 240/. per annum, and the buildings, of quaint and < fanciful design, are reputed to have cost 10,000. The works were started in February last year, the month in which the new police station was opened. The three blocks of dwellings in Regency Street erected by the - Westminster City Council, named after the first three mayors of our old city, Norfolk, Probyn, and Jessel Houses, were completed l.t