. Vanishing England . ided in favour of the freeholder. Sometimes strange notices appear in inns. The follow-ing rather remarkable one was seen by our artist at the County Arms, Stone, near Aylesbury :— A man is specially engaged to do all the cursing andswearing that is required in this establishment. A dog isalso kept to do all the barking. Our prize-fighter andchucker-out has won seventy-five prize-fights and hasnever been beaten, and is a splendid shot with therevolver. An undertaker calls here for orders everymorning. Motor-cars have somewhat revived the life of the oldinns on the great c
. Vanishing England . ided in favour of the freeholder. Sometimes strange notices appear in inns. The follow-ing rather remarkable one was seen by our artist at the County Arms, Stone, near Aylesbury :— A man is specially engaged to do all the cursing andswearing that is required in this establishment. A dog isalso kept to do all the barking. Our prize-fighter andchucker-out has won seventy-five prize-fights and hasnever been beaten, and is a splendid shot with therevolver. An undertaker calls here for orders everymorning. Motor-cars have somewhat revived the life of the oldinns on the great coaching roads, but it is only the OLD INNS 265 larger and more important ones that have been arousedinto a semblance of their old life. The cars disdain thesmaller establishments, and run such long distances thatonly a few houses along the road derive much benefit fromthem. For many their days are numbered, and it may beuseful to describe them before, like four-wheelers andhansom-cabs, they have quite vanished Spandril. The Marquis of Granby Inn, Colchester CHAPTER XIOLD MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS NO class of buildings has suffered more thanthe old town halls of our country of these towns have become decayedand all their ancient glories have departed. They wereonce flourishing places in the palmy days of the clothtrade, and could boast of fairs and markets and a consider-able number of inhabitants and wealthy merchants ; butthe tide of trade has flowed elsewhere. The inventionof steam and complex machinery necessitating proximityto coal-fields has turned its course elsewhere, to thesmoky regions of Yorkshire and Lancashire, and theold town has lost its prosperity and its power. Its charterhas gone ; it can boast of no municipal corporation ;hence the town hall is scarcely needed save for someitinerant Thespians, an occasional public meeting, or asa storehouse of rubbish. It begins to fall into decay,and the decayed town is not rich enough, or public-spirited eno
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