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A post house, posthouse, or posting house was a house or inn where horses were kept and could be rented or changed out. Postriders could also be hired to take travellers [1] by carriage or coach and delivered mail and packages on a route, meeting up at various places according to a schedule. Routes included post roads.
It also included the Little Chef roadside restaurants, Forte Grand, Travelodge, Posthouse and Crest hotels, Harvester restaurants, contract catering firm Gardner Merchant, the Summerland leisure complex on the Isle of Man, the wine merchant Grierson-Blumenthal, sporting goods retailer Lillywhites (which adjoined the group's Criterion Restaurant ...
Trust Houses Ltd was a British hospitality company with temperance origins dating back to 1900. It maintained a distinctive ethos for much of the 20th century. In 1970, at which point it was operating almost 200 hotels, it merged with Forte Holdings Ltd to form Trust House Forte (THF), later the Forte Group.
Posthouse may refer to: Post office; Alternative written form of Post house (historical building) This page was last edited on 19 February 2018, at 22:13 (UTC) ...
Camp Topridge is an Adirondack Park Great Camp bought in 1920 and substantially expanded and renovated in 1923 by Marjorie Merriweather Post, former owner of General Foods and the daughter of C. W. Post.
Some Army posts in the South, as well as streets and buildings on installations like West Point in the North, bore the names of Confederate officers like Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Post House or post house may refer to: A stilt house also known as a pile dwelling, a historic house type; A post-production studio; Post house (historical building), a house or inn with a stable that provided services to travelers and mail carriers; in the United States (by state then city/town)
The United States Post Office and Courthouse is a courthouse of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, located in New Bern, North Carolina. The building was completed in 1935, and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, as a contributing building within the New Bern Historic District ...