. Coaching days & ways. Horses; Coaching (Transportation) -- England; England -- Social life and customs. ^ ^^f M^^T-^ ~~ ?~1. ^ Quaint Bay, St. Albans. VIL—THE HOLYHEAD ROAD. The history of the New and Direct Road to Holyhead by St. Albans, Redbourn, Dunstable, Brick-hill, Tow- cester, Dunchurch, Coventry, Birmingham, and thence to Shrewsbury, begins, as I read its record, two hundred years before the Holyhead Mail showed fair claim to be one of the fastest coaches in England, or the Shrewsbury Wonder's supreme punctuality regulated the watches of dwellers on the roadside. It is true that
. Coaching days & ways. Horses; Coaching (Transportation) -- England; England -- Social life and customs. ^ ^^f M^^T-^ ~~ ?~1. ^ Quaint Bay, St. Albans. VIL—THE HOLYHEAD ROAD. The history of the New and Direct Road to Holyhead by St. Albans, Redbourn, Dunstable, Brick-hill, Tow- cester, Dunchurch, Coventry, Birmingham, and thence to Shrewsbury, begins, as I read its record, two hundred years before the Holyhead Mail showed fair claim to be one of the fastest coaches in England, or the Shrewsbury Wonder's supreme punctuality regulated the watches of dwellers on the roadside. It is true that in November, 1605, roads as we now understand them did not exist; but this same route, or at all events tracks across unin- closed heaths, even then connected the above-mentioned places with each other and the capital, and marked the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cuming, E. D. (Edward William Dirom), 1862-1941; Armour, G. D. (George Denholm), 1864-1949. [London] : Hodder and Stoughton
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