. The Bath road : history, fashion, & frivolity on an old highway. Horses; Bath Road (England); England -- Description and travel; England -- Social life and customs; genealogy. 5° THE BATH ROAD some sort of charity school, and it was as dismal a place as all charitable institutions were apt to be in om" grandfathers' time, when it was criminal to be poor, and eleemosynary establishments, in conse- quence, were designed as much like prisons as might well be. At the time of which I speak it was quite necessary to go to London to do any save the most ordinary shopping, and if one had to
. The Bath road : history, fashion, & frivolity on an old highway. Horses; Bath Road (England); England -- Description and travel; England -- Social life and customs; genealogy. 5° THE BATH ROAD some sort of charity school, and it was as dismal a place as all charitable institutions were apt to be in om" grandfathers' time, when it was criminal to be poor, and eleemosynary establishments, in conse- quence, were designed as much like prisons as might well be. At the time of which I speak it was quite necessary to go to London to do any save the most ordinary shopping, and if one had told the " oldest inhabitant" that a time was presently coming when it would be possible not only to order, but to purchase and take away on the instant, from Ken- sington shops the rarest and most costly things that the heart of man (or woman either, for that matter) could desire, that would have thouo;ht he was bein^ told fairy talcs. I knew that oldest inhabitant, who has been lonsj since o^athered to his fathers. His was a quaint figure, and he was stored with many reminis- cences. He could "mind the time " when Gore House was occupied by the Countess of Blessington, and when Louis Ncxpoleon, then a young man about town, was a frequent visitor to that somewhat Bohemian establishment. Also he remem- bered the first 'bus to make its appearance in Ken- sington. For myself, I certainly remember the time here when omnibuses were few and far between. Now there are generally half a dozen waiting at. " OLDEST INHABITANT.'. 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
Size: 921px × 2714px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookpublisher, booksubjecthorses
