On Monday the King and Queen visited Winchester and took
part in the thanksgiving service held in the Cathedral to celebrate the preservation of the building. It was seven years ago that Mr. T. G. Jackson, the Cathedral architect, discovered that owing to the presence of a great quantity of water under the foundations, the eastern arm of the church was in grave danger of collapsing. Since that time, by the efforts of Mr. Francis Fox, the engineer (whom we congratulate on his well-deserved knighthood), assisted by generous sub- scriptions of the necessary funds, the foundations have been underpinned with concrete blocks. The whole work of under- pinning was carried out by the same diver, Mr. William Robert Walker, who for the last five and a half years has spent six hours a day under water completing the work. We are delighted that this conscientious and devoted worker should have received the special congratulations of the King for his share in the exhausting task.
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