LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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To the North in the Days of Old: Mails starting from the General Post Office, Lombard Street Frontispiece
Old and New Swan Nicks: Vintners’ Company [16]
Modern Sign of the “Swan with Two Necks” [17]
The “Spread Eagle,” Gracechurch Street [19]
The “Saracen’s Head,” Snow Hill [23]
The Mails starting from the General Post Office, 1832 [27]
The “Louth Mail” stopped by the snow [43]
Entrance to London from Islington, 1809 [47]
Islington Green, 1820 [50]
Old Highgate Archway, demolished 1897 [63]
The Great Common of Finchley: A Parlous Place [67]
Turpin’s Oak [70]
“The Whetstone” [72]
High Street, Barnet [77]
Hadley Green: Site of the Battle of Barnet [81]
Old Toll House, Potter’s Bar [82]
Ganwick Corner [83]
Bell Bar [84]
Welwyn [89]
The “Six Hills,” Stevenage [95]
Trigg’s Coffin [102]
At the 39th Mile [106]
Biggleswade [108]
Buckden [115]
Matcham’s Bridge [119]
Alconbury Hill: Junction of the Great North Road and the North Road [123]
The “Bell,” Stilton [127]
Norman Cross [129]
French Prisoners of War Monument, Norman Cross [132]
Sculptured Figure, Water Newton Church [133]
Water Newton Church [134]
Edmund Boulter’s Milestone [135]
The “Haycock,” Wansford [137]
Sign of the “Haycock” [138]
Wansford Bridge [139]
Burghley House, by Stamford Town [143]
Entrance to Stamford [147]
Stamford [151]
Daniel Lambert [152]
The “Highflyer,” 1840 [155]
Bloody Oaks [157]
Interior of a Village Inn [159]
House, formerly the “Black Bull,” Witham Common [163]
Foster Powell [168]
Great Ponton [177]
Great Ponton Church [179]
The “Angel,” Grantham [182]
The “Wondrous Sign” [187]
Newark Castle [195]
Market Place, Newark [199]
Newark Castle [201]
Jockey House [210]
An Old Postboy: John Blagg [212]
Scrooby Church [216]
Scrooby Manor House [217]
The Stables, Scrooby Manor House [220]
The “Crown,” Bawtry [224]
Coach passing Doncaster Racecourse [229]
Brayton Church [237]
Market Place, Selby [239]
Micklegate Bar [245]
Micklegate Bar: Present Day [246]