GB : England's First Mail Coach.

August 2nd -1784

In accordance with a proposal by John Palmer that mail coaches be used to transport mail and to reduce travel time
in Great Britain, the first such coach leaves the "Swan Tavern" in Bristol at 4 in the afternoon, calls at the "Three
Tuns" in Bath and arrives at the "Swan With Two Necks" in London at 8 the following morning.

This Bristol-London route proves so successful that others are soon established throughout the nation. A new era of
high-speed mail transport begins that will endure until the railways arrive in England half a century later.


TUN : a large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent
to 2 butts or 252 gals

Very interesting information. Thank you!




Butch

Looks like a nice place for a pint !

Londonbus1....Totally teetotallessy !

So, if one drinks a tun of beer one is sure to get snockered!

Yay! LondonBus you're a legend,
I had forgotten that issue, bravo.

I often muse why the Bath route was the first, I am assuming
the <then> major Ports of both Bristol and Plymouth were receiving
and despatching important mails from shipping to and fro-ing
from the colonies and the carribean.

Swab: 252 gallons of warm English beer, not survivable :)

The "SWAN WITH TWO NECKS" became the largest of its kind in London - of the 28 mail coaches which left London every evening half were horsed at this

inn.

Letter dated 5/11/1798 from Jermyn Street, in London, to Derby, which
referes to the coach inn The Swan with two necks.

Cheers
Ron

WooHoo! fantastic Ron, loved it.
That deserves a strawberry

Two comments apart from the very interesting
theme, complete=compleat very common at that time,
and the whorls under the signature at the end,
that is something else!