Observation at Borne of the principal ingljfih railway stations during the recent holiday seasons indicates that folk travel with less luggago now than was deemed noccssary oven a few years ago. What travelling in the good old days was like in this respect one gathers from the memoirs of the opening nineteenth century when it was customary for holiday-makere to take with them not only clothes, books etc., but tho family plate and a large consignment of furniture. Beckford, of Fonthill, used to declare that it was impossible for him to go on holidays without two or throe lint-clan pictures, especially a (ivourite lUpliael,
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 89, 12 October 1923, Page 3
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104Untitled Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 89, 12 October 1923, Page 3
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