It was good to see that in the revised plans for the Coppergate extension (Evening Press, October 29) the Caf Andros is to be saved.

In the 1840s this building was the drawing office of the York architect G T Andrews who was a close friend of The Railway King, George Hudson. Andrews designed York's first railway station, still standing in Tanner Row and the arch through the Bar Walls leading to it.

He designed many other railway stations in Yorkshire, notably Whitby, Pocklington, Malton, Beverley and Scarborough, all still standing. In York Andrews was responsible for St John's College in Lord Mayor's Walk and the De Grey Rooms. He was Sheriff of York in 1847, but was ruined with Hudson's downfall.

A few further commissions included the churches at Flaxton, Overton, Topcliffe, Newton on Ouse and the church and school at Shipton by Beningbrough.

Andrews died at the comparatively early age of 51, in 1855. He should be commemorated with a plaque on the Caf Andros.

A J Walters,

Clifton,

York.

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