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But the old stage wagons and coaches made the roads of England cheerful and full of life. Their arrival in the little villages and country towns was the great event of the day. Many old coaching inns remain to show us by their size and importance that the number of travellers Who passed along the roads was very large, and, as travelling was so slow, they required accommodation for the night as well as food for the day. In 1774 a handbill announced as a triumph of speed that a flying coach went from Here ford to London in a day and a half and that another went to Shropshire in two days.
The towns, and even London itself, were yet but small. London did not reach to Kensington on the West or to Bethnal Green on the East. The streets were badly kept and ill paved. The commonest rules of sanitation were unknown. The rain from the roofs of the houses was discharged into the street by wooden pipes and as often as not fell on the head of the passer by. The streets were badly lighted at night. Men and boys went about after dark carrying links or torches, made of wood dipped in resin or some other inflammable substance, and offering to light belated travellers to their homes. The coaches of the rich were preceded by footmen carrying flambeaux as torches were called, and we can still see outside old houses in London and in country towns. The extinguishers into which these torches were thrust to put out the flames.
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- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1334719144
- ISBN 13 9781334719141
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages313
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