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The Edinburgh and London Royal Mail, 1838.The guard can be seen at the back. John Frederick Herring. A mail coach is a stagecoach that is used to deliver mail.In Great Britain, Ireland, and Australia, they were built to a General Post Office-approved design operated by an independent contractor to carry long-distance mail for the Post Office.
Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, Thursday, 14 June 1849 reported: "Mr John Croall, the enterprising coach-builder and coach proprietor of this city, is now manufacturing an extensive series of mail coaches for the Emperor of Russia. Each coach weighs about twenty-two hundred weight, and is intended to be drawn by six horses."
The English Mail-Coach is an essay by the English author Thomas De Quincey.A "three-part masterpiece" and "one of his most magnificent works," [1] it first appeared in 1849 in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, in the October (Part I) and December (Parts II and III) issues.
Mail coach decorated in the black and maroon Post Office livery, 1804 A public notice advertising a new stage coach service in west Wales, 1831. Even more dramatic improvements were made by John Palmer at the British Post Office. The postal delivery service in Britain had existed in the same form for about 150 years—from its introduction in ...
Line of the Great North Road from London to Edinburgh. The Great North Road was the main highway between England and Scotland from medieval times until the 20th century. It became a coaching route used by mail coaches travelling between London, York and Edinburgh. The modern A1 mainly parallels the route of the Great North Road.
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A print showing a mail coach decorated in the black and scarlet Post Office livery near Newmarket, Suffolk in 1827.The guard can be seen standing at the rear. The postal delivery service in Britain had existed in the same form for about 150 years—from its introduction in 1635, mounted carriers had ridden between "posts" where the postmaster would remove the letters for the local area before ...