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3 - Portrait tablets
2 - PC/landscape tablets
4 - L/scape smartphone
5 - Portrait smartphone
One of the books is “Down the road or Reminiscences of a Gentleman Coachman” (a typical two-part title of the time. It was written by an educated gentleman called C. T. S. Birch Reynardson who had qualified as a coach driver simply because he loved coaches. Just as small boys of my generation wanted to be engine drivers when they grew up, he wanted to drive coaches. The difference is that he did.
He begins:-
He goes on to explain why he wants to capture the living memories before they are lost:-
I’ve altered the text slightly for readability but the entire book can be read in its original form, completely free of charge, at this website.
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Background
The story behind this website
Books written in the late 1800s
One of the books
Websites about the coaching age
(not complete)
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Anecdotes written by people who actually travelled on the coaches
The coachmen, the inns, the coach proprietors - they’re all here. Come in and meet them
Britain’s roads were pretty impassable for most of our history. Coach travel was very difficult until they improved
Wheeled transport evolved over many years. Find out how coaches developed
Sources and information about how I came to create this website
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