The King's Post: Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present timeTombs, Robert Charles
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The King's Post: Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time
Tombs, Robert Charles
Postal service -- England -- Bristol
Brewham, Foot post to, 2
Brightstowe, Plan of, 177
Brighton Coach, 66
Brill, Mail Coach Inspector, 88
Bristol Cathedral, 93
" Copper Co., 12
" Mail Coach robberies, 119-122, 124, 126, 127
" Rejuvenated, 160
" Turnpike Gates, 117
" Water Works Co., 12, 15
Broadmead Chapel Records, 7
Broad Street, 102
Brooks, Thos., & Co., 65
Browne, Letter of year 1671, 6-7
Brunswick, Duke of, at White Lion, 102
Bull and Mouth Inn, London, 72, 73, 87
Burglaries, Post Office, 134-136
Burnett, Mail Coachman, killed, 88, 89
Bush, Mr. J. Paul, C.M.G., in Africa, 173
" " " P.O. Medical Officer, 174
Bush Inn, Bristol, 9, 26, 63, 64, 66, 68, 71, 79, 93,
94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 101
Canadian Mail Service, 163
Cann Family, 178-180, 183
Carriers warned, 30
Cathedral, Bristol, 93
"Cavilears" threatening Postmaster Teig, 5
Chamber of Commerce, 163
Chamberlain, Mr. Austen, 75, 76
Chaplin, Coach proprietor, 105
Charles I., 2
Charles II., 4, 8, 192, 193
Chatham, Lord, friend of Allen, 48
Cheltenham Coach, 71
Chichester Mail Coach, 75, 79, 81
Chimney-piece, Old Elton, 191
Chronometer, London Coach, 69
City Chamberlain's account, 1, 2
City Chambers Co., 10
Clevedon Mail Cart accident, 155, 157, 158
Clift, Pratt & Co., 70
Coach accident, Kennet Hill, 34
Coaches, Better equipment wanted, 43
Coach and Horses Inn, Southampton, 66
Coach, Long, Portsmouth, 79
Coachman fined for giving up reins, 88
" Musical, 90
" Warminster, drunk, 84
Coach Service to Bristol, 28, 31, 33
Coggan, Mrs. Varnam, 238
Coin secreted in Parcel, 226
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 107
Colston, Edward, 192
Columbia Stamping Machine, 198
Commons, P.M. of House of, 237
Constantine, Duke, of Russia, Visits the White Lion, 102
Copper Co., Bristol, 12
Cornishman, G.W.R. Train, 148, 149
Corn Street, 1663
Coronation Poem, Mrs. Varnam-Coggan, 239
" Procession projected, 240
Cornwallis Coach, 65, 66
" Admiral, 66
Coutts, Thos., 96
Cranford Bridge, Postboy robbed, 127
Creswick Family, Mansion of, 14
Cross Posts, 24, 41
Crown Inn, Portsmouth, 79
Cumberland, Duke of, 50
Curious Incidents, 226, 227, 229, 230, 231
Dean of Bristol's Signature, 224, 225
Devizes, Bear Inn, 102
Devon Coach, 69
Devonport Mail snowed up, 86
Diligence Mail, 31, 33
Disastrous Gale and the Telegraphs, 3, 159
Ditton, Antony, Marlboro' Mayor, 21
Doddington, Barth., 21
Dolphin Inn, 6-7
" Street, Bristol, 106
Duchess of St. Albans, 96
Duke of Beaufort, Horses burnt, 103
" Brunswick visits White Lion, 102
" Gloster Sloop, 100
Electric Light Fails, 220-222
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