HIGHWAY ROBBERS IN LONDON 150 YEARS AGO
Towards the end of the eighteenth century “it was customary for travellers coining to town to remain all night at'* (he Angel at Islington, rather than push forward in the dark, as the road was" bad, and infested by robbers.” “Persons walking from the City to Islington, in the evening, waited near the end of St. John street, Clevkenwcll, until % sufficient party had collected, who were then escorted by an armed patrol appointed for that' purpose.” A programme of the entertainments at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in 1783 concluded thus: —“A horse patrol will be sent- in the New Road, that night, for the protection of the nobility and gentry wlso go from the squares and that end of the town. The road also towards the City will be properly guarded.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIX, 1 February 1936, Page 3
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137HIGHWAY ROBBERS IN LONDON 150 YEARS AGO Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIX, 1 February 1936, Page 3
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