The Great North Road, the Old Mail Road to Scotland: York to EdinburghHarper, Charles G. (Charles George)
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The Great North Road, the Old Mail Road to Scotland: York to Edinburgh
Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)
A1 Road (England and Scotland); England -- Social life and customs; Great Britain -- Description and travel
A Wayside Halt 138
Travellers arriving at an Inn 145
Modern Newcastle: from Gateshead 153
Old Newcastle: showing the Town Bridge, now 157
demolished
“The Drunkard’s Cloak” 162
“Puffing Billy” 165
The Gates of Blagdon Park 167
Morpeth 169
The Market-place, Morpeth 173
Felton Bridge 174
Alnwick 175
Alnwick Castle 185
Malcolm’s Cross 188
Bambrough Castle 192
The Scottish Border: Berwick Town and Bridge from 197
Tweedmouth
Lamberton Toll 203
Off to the Border 205
Cockburnspath Tower 213
The Tolbooth, Dunbar 215
Bothwell Castle 220
Haddington Abbey, from Nungate 221
Edinburgh, from Tranent 223
Musselburgh 228
Calton Hill 232
The “White Horse” Inn 235
“Squalor and Picturesqueness” 238
Canongate 239
Old Inscription, Lady Stair’s House 241
The “Heave Awa” Sign 242
A Tirle-pin 243
Greyfriars 245
The Wooden Horse 247
Stately Princes Street 249
Edinburgh, New Town, 1847, from Mons Meg Battery 251
Skyline of the Old Town 255
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