I have included here a reproduction of the card of one of the public coaches running out of London in 1906, for it promises soon to have an antiquarian interest. Every summer morning for years past these coaches have left Piccadilly, and lately, Northumberland Avenue, for Brighton, Dorking, Windsor, and elsewhere. Now the motor is killing all that, and in a year or two, probably, the last surviving opportunity of coaching into the country will be gone. These old cards seem therefore worth preserving.
THE OLD ESTABLISHED
Dorking Coach
“PERSEVERANCE,”
Leaves HOTEL METROPOLE, Northumberland Avenue,
At 10.30 a.m.
AND
Returns from the WHITE HORSE HOTEL, DORKING,
At 3.15 p.m.
EVERY DAY (Sundays excepted).
| Fares | LEAVING | |
|---|---|---|
| s. d. | A.M. | |
| “Hotel Metropole” | 10.30 | |
| 2 6 | * Roehampton | 11.30 |
| “King’s Head” | ||
| 4 6 | Kingston | 12. 5 |
| 5 0 | Surbiton | 12.15 |
| 5 6 | * Hook | 12.25 |
| “North Star” | ||
| 6 6 | * Epsom | 1.0 |
| 7 6 | Leatherhead | 1.28 |
| “Swan Hotel” | ||
| 8 6 | Mickleham | 1.40 |
| 9 0 | Boxhill | 1.50 |
| “Burford Bdg. Hotel” | ||
| 10 0 | Arr. at Dorking | 2.0 |
| “White Horse Hotel” | ||
| Fares | RETURNING FROM | |
| s. d. | P.M. | |
| Dorking | 3.15 | |
| “White Horse Hotel” | ||
| 1 0 | Boxhill | 3.25 |
| “Burford Bdg. Hotel” | ||
| 1 6 | Mickleham | 3.35 |
| 2 6 | Leatherhead | 3.47 |
| “Swan Hotel” | ||
| 3 6 | * Epsom | 4.15 |
| 4 6 | * Hook ar. | 4.45 |
| “North Star” | ||
| dep. | 4.55 | |
| 5 0 | Surbiton | 5.5 |
| 5 6 | Kingston | 5.15 |
| 7 6 | * Roehampton | 5.45 |
| “King’s Head” | ||
| 10 0 | Ar. “Hotel Metropole” | 6.45 |
* Change Horses.
Return Fare, 15s. Single, 10s. Box Seat, 2s. 6d. extra each way.
The whole of the Coach to Boxhill or Dorking and back, £8, 8s.
Places can be secured at the Coach Office,
Cigar Department, Hotel Metropole, Northumberland Avenue, Charing Cross.