STAGE-COACHES STILL RUNNING
Every day during the summer—except on Sundays—a stage coach is travelling between Piccadilly, London, and Hampton Court. This is the Greyhound, which Is said to be the last stage coach in the world to make a regular daily run. It might bo thought that nowadays, says a London writer, when there are so many faster inodes of travelling, it would be difficult to make a stage coach pay. But there are keen amateur drivers-who appreciate being able to drive four-in-hand on one day caclJ week, and are willing to pay for the privilege. And members of the general public get a real thrill out of a stage coach journey. At the beginning of the century there were still from a dozen to twenty stage coaches making regular daily trips from London. One of the horses on the Hampton Court run then was a famous “character.” When horses were changed at a certain inn, and some of the passengers adjourned to the bar, the animal would follow them in. It’s “order” was always the same—beer from a pint tankard, which it drank with every sign of enjoyment.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 266, 5 August 1932, Page 2
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