. The Bath road : history, fashion, & frivolity on an old highway. Horses; Bath Road (England); England -- Description and travel; England -- Social life and customs; genealogy. 72 THE BATH ROAD liave an interest for the tourist who does not often come upon their like. Hounslow's is just a common- place ugliness. The curtailed remains of its once numerous and extensive coaching inns are become, as a rule, low pot-houses, in which labourers in tlie market-gardens that practically surround the town, sit and drink themselves stupid in the evening; and the business premises and 23rivate houses
. The Bath road : history, fashion, & frivolity on an old highway. Horses; Bath Road (England); England -- Description and travel; England -- Social life and customs; genealogy. 72 THE BATH ROAD liave an interest for the tourist who does not often come upon their like. Hounslow's is just a common- place ugliness. The curtailed remains of its once numerous and extensive coaching inns are become, as a rule, low pot-houses, in which labourers in tlie market-gardens that practically surround the town, sit and drink themselves stupid in the evening; and the business premises and 23rivate houses which alter- nate along the highway are either shabby old COTTAGES, SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN THE HAUNTS OF DICK TUKPIN. not old enougli to claim any interest on the score of antiquity ; or of a pretentious bad taste rather more difficult to bear with than the dirty hovels and tumbledown cottages they have displaced. Here, indeed, is the debateable ground between town and country. Rurality is (appropriately enough) in its last ditch, while civilization has established a pre- carious outpost beside it. Flashy " villas " jostle the market-gardeners' cottages ; and respectability sits self- satisfied in its prim Early Victorian 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 Harper, Charles G. (Charles George), 1863-1943. London : Chapman & Hall, Limited
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