List of Illustrations
SEPARATE PLATES
| PAGE | ||
| 1. | Mail-coach passing St. George’s Circus, Southwark, 1797. (After Dalgety) | [Frontispiece] |
| 2. | The Worcester Mail, 1805. (After J. A. Atkinson) | [7] |
| 3. | The Mail. (After J. L. Agasse, 1842) | [13] |
| 4. | The Bristol Mail at Hyde Park Corner, 1838. (After J. Doyle) | [19] |
| 5. | The Yarmouth Mail at the “Coach and Horses,” Ilford. (After J. Pollard) | [25] |
| 6. | The “Quicksilver” Devonport Mail, passing Kew Bridge. (After J. Pollard) | [29] |
| 7. | The “Quicksilver” Devonport Mail, arriving at Temple Bar. (After C. B. Newhouse) | [37] |
| 8. | The “Quicksilver” Devonport Mail, passing Windsor Castle. (After Charles Hunt, 1840) | [41] |
| 9. | Mail-coach built by Waude, 1830. (Now in possession of Messrs. Holland & Holland) | [45] |
| 10. | The “Queen’s Hotel” and General Post Office. (After T. Allom) | [69] |
| 11. | The Turnpike Gate. (From a contemporary Lithograph) | [77] |
| 12. | A Midnight Disaster on a Cross Road: Five Miles to the Nearest Village. (After C. B. Newhouse) | [99] |
| 13. | The “Beaufort” Brighton Coach. (After W. J. Shayer) | [103] |
| 14. | A Queer Piece of Ground in a Fog: “If we get over the rails, we shall be in an ugly fix.” (After C. B. Newhouse) | [111] |
| 15. | Road versus Rail. (After C. Cooper Henderson, 1845) | [117] |
| 16. | Joseph Baxendale. (From the Portrait by E. H. Pickersgill, R.A.) | [131] |
| 17. | Pickford and Co’s Royal Fly-van, about 1820. (From a contemporary Painting) | [139] |
| 18. | The Lioness attacking the Exeter Mail, October 20th, 1816. (After A. Sauerweid) | [153] |
| 19. | Winter: Going North. (After H. Alken) | [163] |
| 20. | Mail-coach in a Snow-drift. (After J. Pollard) | [167] |
| 21. | Mail-coach in a Flood. (After J. Pollard) | [171] |
| 22. | Late for the Mail. (After C. Cooper Henderson, 1848) | [183] |
| 23. | The Short Stage. (After J. Pollard) | [191] |
| 24. | William Chaplin. (From the Painting by Frederick Newnham) | [197] |
| 25. | The Canterbury and Dover Coach, 1830. (After G. S. Treguar) | [201] |
| 26. | James Nunn, Horse-buyer and Veterinary Surgeon to William Chaplin. (After J. F. Herring) | [205] |
| 27. | William Augustus Chaplin. | [211] |
| 28. | The “Bedford Times,” one of the last Coaches to run, leaving the “Swan Hotel,” Bedford. | [219] |
| 29. | Four-in-hand. (After G. H. Laporte) | [243] |
| 30. | Sir St. Vincent Cotton. | [249] |
| 31. | The Consequence of being Drove by a Gentleman. (After H. Alken) | [255] |
| 32. | Goldsworthy Gurney’s London and Bath Steam-carriage, 1833. (After G. Morton) | [265] |
| 33. | The Last Journey down the Road. (After J. L. Agasse) | [275] |
| 34. | The Chesham Coach, 1796. (From the Painting by Cordery) | [283] |
| 35. | The Last of the “Manchester Defiance.” (From a Lithograph) | [287] |
| 36. | The Coachman, 1832. (After H. Alken) | [293] |
| 37. | The Driver, 1852. (After H. Alken) | [297] |
| 38. | The Guard, 1832. (After H. Alken) | [303] |
| 39. | The Guard, 1852. (After H. Alken) | [309] |
| 40. | “All Right!”—The Bath Mail taking up the Mail-bags. (From a contemporary Lithograph) | [341] |
ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT
| Vignette | ([Title-page]) |
| List of Illustrations | [ix] |
| Stage-coach and Mail in Days of Yore | [1] |
| Mail-coach Halfpenny issued by William Waterhouse | [196] |
| Benjamin Worthy Horne | [221] |
| “A View of the Telegraph”: Dick Vaughan, of the Cambridge “Telegraph.” (From an Etching by Robert Dighton, 1809) | [301] |
| A Stage-coachman’s Epitaph at Haddiscoe | [316] |
STAGE COACH AND MAIL IN DAYS OF YORE