On the Track of the Mail-Coach: Being a Volume of Reminiscences Personal and Otherwise (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Baines, F. E.

9780365027522: On the Track of the Mail-Coach: Being a Volume of Reminiscences Personal and Otherwise (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0365027529 ISBN 13: 9780365027522

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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There is something yet to be written of interest about the cross-posts and other lines of mail-coach communication, and also about the coaching and posting inns which maintain an existence on the deserted mail-coach roads.

In this volume I have limited myself, for the most part, to the Track of Mail-coaches, making for the chief ports of the United Kingdom, and I have added some anecdotal matter bearing on the telegraph. Also, having long held certain Views with reference to postal and telephonic facilities in rural districts, I have taken this opportunity of giving expression to them.

Here and there I have afforded a glimpse of the complex public work which has been undertaken in the past, and which is still performed with fidelity by provincial postal officials, whose duties do not, as a rule, come under notice, but, as the late Home Secretary is reported to have stated, on the occasion of a Civil Service festivity in June, 1895, are dis charged 'in the twilight, through the mist of which the fierce glare of public observation and public applause can rarely penetrate.'

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