Drake's Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway: from Birmingham to Liverpool and ManchesterDrake, James, active 1825
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Drake's Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway: from Birmingham to Liverpool and Manchester
Drake, James, active 1825
Grand Junction Railway Company (Great Britain) -- Guidebooks; Railroad travel -- Great Britain -- Guidebooks
Misses E. & C. Puddicombe, (Private & Commercial,) 3, Colmore-row;
J. Smith, 72, Newhall-street;
Glover, 118, New-street.
OMNIBUS OFFICES.
High-street; Bull-street, and Snow-hill.
LIST OF NEWSPAPERS.—_July_ 31, 1838.
_Monday_ ARIS’S GAZETTE—General and Commercial Advertising Paper,
established nearly a century. Average weekly
circulation, 3,250 copies.
_Thursday_ THE MIDLAND COUNTIES’ HERALD—A general business Paper,
circulated to a considerable extent, gratuitously, and
containing commercial and other information, but no
political discussions. The guaranteed circulation is
5,000 copies weekly.
— BIRMINGHAM ADVERTISER—Tory. Circulation, 1,750 copies
weekly.
_Saturday_ BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL—Radical and intelligent.
Circulation, 2,500 copies weekly.
CANAL CONVEYANCE.
Bird, G. R., & Son, Crescent; all parts.
Crowley, Hicklin, Batty, & Co., Crescent; all parts.
Danks, J., Broad-street; Liverpool, Manchester, Hull, and all places on
the eastern coast.
Danks, J., Great Charles-street; Bristol and the West of England.
Greaves, Broad-street; Stratford-on-Avon, &c.
Pickford & Co., Fazeley-street and Worcester Wharfs; all parts of the
kingdom.
Partridge, W. & Co., No. 5, Warehouse, Worcester Wharf; Worcester,
Gloucester, and Bristol.
Partt, C., Jun., Crescent; Stratford-on-Avon.
Shipton & Co., Broad-street; Liverpool, Manchester, and all parts of the
North of England.
Smith, Great Charles-street.
Swain & Co., Friday Bridge; Hull, the North, and Sheffield.
Sturland, Thomas, Crescent; Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester, and all parts
of the North.
Southan, Worcester Wharf; Bristol and Wales.
Smith & Wilkinson, 161, Great Charles-street; Walsall.
Wheatcroft & Sons, Crescent; all parts North and East.
Whitehouse & Sons, Crescent, all parts.
Worthington & Co., Great Charles-street; Liverpool, Manchester, and all
parts of the North.
WAGGON WAREHOUSES.
John Shackel, 52, Dale-end; London and all parts.
G. Swain & Co., Friday Bridge; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Carlisle, Durham,
York, Hull, &c.
Mead, 138, Moor-street; all parts.
W. Ashmore, Edgbaston-street; Bristol and the West, and all parts of
Norfolk.
Jolly, Bromsgrove-street; London.
Wheatcroft & Sons, Crescent; Leeds, Sheffield, and the North, Bristol,
and all parts of the West.
Haines & Co.’s Fly Vans, White Horse, Moor-street; London and Bristol.
J. Butler, 88, Coleshill-street; Staffordshire and the Potteries.
Wade & Co., Bordesley-street; Bristol and the West, Sheffield, and the
North.
Red Lion, Park-street, Digbeth; London, Bristol, and all parts.
PLACES OF NOTE ADJACENT TO BIRMINGHAM.
The tourist will find the following places well deserving his attention,
and to which coaches are daily passing. The figures denote the miles
distant from Birmingham.
The Ruins of Kenilworth Castle, 18.
The Ruins of Dudley Castle, 9.
Warwick Castle, 20.
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