The Dover road annals The Dover road : annals of an ancient turnpike doverroadannalso00harp Year: 1922 THE CITY SERGEANT 215 gorgeous creature clad in black knee-breeches and silk stockings ; with buckled shoes and cocked-hat ; with coat and waist- coat of a courtly type, trimmed and faced with gold lace. It is nothing less than startling to see such an uniform in daily use ; and, still more amazing is it, when you ask the wearer of it who he is, to hear him reply, with a grave politeness, that he is the City Sergeant. Old insti- tutions live long here, and old people, too. At Canterbury di
The Dover road annals The Dover road : annals of an ancient turnpike doverroadannalso00harp Year: 1922 THE CITY SERGEANT 215 gorgeous creature clad in black knee-breeches and silk stockings ; with buckled shoes and cocked-hat ; with coat and waist- coat of a courtly type, trimmed and faced with gold lace. It is nothing less than startling to see such an uniform in daily use ; and, still more amazing is it, when you ask the wearer of it who he is, to hear him reply, with a grave politeness, that he is the City Sergeant. Old insti- tutions live long here, and old people, too. At Canterbury died, in 1891, aged ninety- one, William Clements, one of the last, if not the last, of the old stage - coach drivers, who had driven the ' Tally-ho ' coach between this and Lon- don long before the railway was thought of; and in July, 1901, aged 89, died Stephen Philpott, who was coachman of the Dover Mail, until the railway ran him off. He was transferred to a route between London and Heme Bay, and afterwards became proprietor of the ' Royal Oak,' Dover, since demolished for street improvements. A (i OK GEO US CIIEATURE.
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