Coaching days and coaching ways . ver,what is more important from my point of view is thatthe company of about thirty persons—all relations ofthe conspirators; some of the actual conspirators amongthese, travelled in coaches—proceeded by Daventry toJohn Grants house at Norbrook, a fine, melancholy,moated manor once (where is it now ?), thence toRobert Winters, at Huddington, and so to Flintshireby Shrewsbury. The fact that the pilgrims travelled in coaches bringsme by quite a natural stage from the historical to thecoaching side of the Holyhead Road. And it was fromall I can learn the coaching
Coaching days and coaching ways . ver,what is more important from my point of view is thatthe company of about thirty persons—all relations ofthe conspirators; some of the actual conspirators amongthese, travelled in coaches—proceeded by Daventry toJohn Grants house at Norbrook, a fine, melancholy,moated manor once (where is it now ?), thence toRobert Winters, at Huddington, and so to Flintshireby Shrewsbury. The fact that the pilgrims travelled in coaches bringsme by quite a natural stage from the historical to thecoaching side of the Holyhead Road. And it was fromall I can learn the coaching road par excellence. Cele-brated, thanks to the immortal Telford, for its 260 milesof superb surface, so masterfully laid down that, though 342 COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS the last 107 miles from Shrewsbury to Holyhead ranthrough mountainous country, no horse was obliged to ? • ?-. ,V(. » !•> *« - ?-., ft•? V>. iv -? , ft *% --^.W^r- If ...->. ?•••-,-•.. -- ®«g Seeing them walk, unless he particularly wished it, between Holyheadand London ; celebrated too for its coachmen, a longlist of historic names shining calmly through many a THE HOLYHEAD ROAD 343 story of poles snapped ; coaches over-turned in thetwinkling of an eye; runaway teams nearing closed toll-bars ; desperate races for a slight pre-eminence, endingin desperate collisions ; celebrated consequently andfinally for its time records, which never were beaten. Not even on the Exeter Road by the Quicksilver orthe Telegraph. For though the former covered the 175miles between London and Exeter in eighteen hours, and bffl
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