South London . THE FALCON TAVERN, BANKSIDE waggons, and caravans passed every day up and down theHigh Street, some stopping or starting in Southwark itself;some going over London Bridge to their destination in theCity. The coach of the first half of the century can berestored from Hogarth. That of the latter half of the •56 SOUTH LONDON century was in all respects like the revived coaches of thepresent day, adapted for rapid travelling along a smoothroad. The carts were carriers carts on two wheels with atilt or cover; they carried parcels and small packages, andon occasions, but not always, o
South London . THE FALCON TAVERN, BANKSIDE waggons, and caravans passed every day up and down theHigh Street, some stopping or starting in Southwark itself;some going over London Bridge to their destination in theCity. The coach of the first half of the century can berestored from Hogarth. That of the latter half of the •56 SOUTH LONDON century was in all respects like the revived coaches of thepresent day, adapted for rapid travelling along a smoothroad. The carts were carriers carts on two wheels with atilt or cover; they carried parcels and small packages, andon occasions, but not always, one or two passengers. The. AN OLD MILL, BANKSIDE waggons, which carried heavy goods and passengers not in ahurry, were also covered with a tilt; their broad wheels andcapacious interior can be restored, as well as the coach, fromthat most trustworthy painter of his own time. As for thecaravans, I am in some doubt. I suppose, however, that a IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 257 caravan was then what it is now, in which case it was anelementary Pullmans car, in which people and their effectsivere drawn slowly along the road, in a four-wheeled coveredcart. Perhaps the passengers slept in the car at night, drawnup by the roadside, like the gipsies. But of this theory Ihave no kind of proof. From the Borough alone, without counting the vehicleswhich passed through to or from the City, there were sent
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