. The dawn of the XIXth century in England, a social sketch of the times. n between those places unvisited bythe mail coach, and also for those which required a morefrequent service. They were very numerous, so much so STAGE WAGGONS. i8: that, although I began to count them, I gave up the task, asnot being worth the candle. But it was not every one who could afford to travel bystage coach, and for them was the stage waggon, orcaravan, huge and cumbrous machines, with immenselybroad wheels, so as to take a good grip of the road, andmake light of the ruts. These machines, and the fewcanals then
. The dawn of the XIXth century in England, a social sketch of the times. n between those places unvisited bythe mail coach, and also for those which required a morefrequent service. They were very numerous, so much so STAGE WAGGONS. i8: that, although I began to count them, I gave up the task, asnot being worth the candle. But it was not every one who could afford to travel bystage coach, and for them was the stage waggon, orcaravan, huge and cumbrous machines, with immenselybroad wheels, so as to take a good grip of the road, andmake light of the ruts. These machines, and the fewcanals then in existence, did the inland goods carriage ofthe whole of England. Slow and laborious was their work,but they poked a few passengers among the goods, andcarried them very cheaply. They were a remnant of theprevious century, and, in the pages of Smollett, and otherwriters, we hear a great deal of these waggons. To give some idea of them, their route, and the timethey used to take on their journey, I must make oneexample suffice, taken haphazard from a quantity. (1802.). ^jr^^^^ Tiinbridge Wells, and Tunbridge Original Waggon. Tothe Queens Head Inn, Borough. By J. Hunt. Late Chesseman and Morphew. Under an establish-ment of more than sixty years. Sets out from the New Inn,Tunbridge Wells, every Monday and Thursday morning,and arrives at the above Inn, every Tuesday and Fridaymorning, from whence it returns the same days at noon,and arrives at Tunbridge Wells every Wednesday andSaturday afternoon, and from September ist to Decem-ber 25th a Waggon sets out from Tunbridge Wells everyWednesday and Saturday morning, and arrives at theabove Inn every Monday and Thursday morning, from iS6 THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. whence it returns the same days at noon, and arrives atTunbritli^e Wells every Tuesday and Friday afternoon,carrying goods and parcels to and from— Tunbridge Wells. Mayfield. Tunhridge. \Nadhurst. Grooinbridge. Ticehurst. Langton. Mark Cross. Spaldluirst. Frant. Ashurst.
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