Library Record
Metadata
Author |
Harris, Stanley. |
Title |
Old Coaching Days |
Shelf Location |
Coaching |
Link to Scanned Copy |
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Summary |
Material for the book was taken from authentic, reliable, and original sources, some of which is only in the possession of Stanley Harris. London Inns in coaching days, down the road about forty years since, coach building, coach painting, how I became a coach horse, my night work when a coach horse, new and the old coaches, on the London and Bristol road, time-keeping on the old coaches, mail and coach times and time-bills, mail coach contracts, how the old mails were worked, turnpikes and coaches, heavy snowstorm in 1836, coachmen and guards in the olden times, railway and coaching punctuality, posting-the three jolly postboys, with their song, coaching odds and ends last stage in. |
Subjects |
1. Coaching--England. 2. England--Description and travel--1890. |
Search Terms |
Material for the book was taken from authentic, reliable, and original sources, some of which is only in the possession of Stanley Harris. London Inns in coaching days, down the road about forty years since, coach building, coach painting, how I became a coach horse, my night work when a coach horse, new and the old coaches, on the London and Bristol road, time-keeping on the old coaches, mail and coach times and time-bills, mail coach contracts, how the old mails were worked, turnpikes and coaches, heavy snowstorm in 1836, coachmen and guards in the olden times, railway and coaching punctuality, posting-the three jolly postboys, with their song, coaching odds and ends last stage in. Coaching |
Publisher |
Richard Bentley & Son, |
Published Date |
1882. |
Published Place |
London : |
Physical Description |
279 p., XII plates : ill ; 23 cm. Fine red leather binding. |
Catalog Number |
2017.CMA2.1038 |