Old sketch of the Angel Inn at Ferrybridge, Yorkshire during the coaching era. In 1889 there were 2 living old coaching postboys formerly connected with the Angel. The elder, George Barker, was then 87 and James Terry, was 85 . Terry originally worked at the Golden Lion when he was twenty, and afterwards went to the Angel. Tom Varley nicknamed Tom Groom came from Kent to work for Mr. Atkinson the Angel landlord for many years but sadly hung himself at his house in Colbert Lane. Other Angel postboys that were dead by 1889 were Sam Colbert, Jimmy Watson, Tom Fagdin, and " Beefy ".

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