Horse-Drawn Mail
Notice from the coaching inn the Bolt-in-Tun, 18th-19th century
Accession number: 2005.0081/5 (not currently available on the online catalogue)
This notice from one of London's main coaching inns lists two of the Royal Mail coaches from London: one to Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight and one to Hastings and Tunbridge Wells. It also has a list of fast coaches from the inn.
Responsibility for such notices lay with the innkeepers. Since mail coaches were also used as a means of public transport, it was important that the public knew what time they departed.
This poster was printed by Charles Whiting, a quality printer who supplied a considerable amount of material for the Post Office over many years.
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