THE HOLYHEAD ROAD 



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And here the time-bill of the Manchester Tele- 

 graph : — 



Leave Bull and Mouth at 5 a.m. 

 ,, Peacock, Islington, at 5.1$. 



Proprietor. 



Place. 



Sherman .... St. Albans 



Liley Reclbourn . . 



Fossey Hockliffe . . 



Northampton 



(Breakfast) 



Shaw Harboro' . 



Leicester . 



(Business) 



Pettifer Loughboro' 



Derby . . 



(Dinner) 



Mason Ashbourne 



Wood Waterhouses 



Linley .... ; Bullock Smithy 

 Wetherall & Co. . Manchester . . 



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Desperate travelling this ! But by no means repre- 

 senting solitary records of sustained speed on these fine 

 North-Western Roads. By no means. For the Mail 

 to Holyhead via Chester (the old route), though not keep- 

 ing the same pace as the Mail from London to Holyhead 

 via Shrewsbury, still did its nine miles and a half an hour, 

 including stoppages, travelling on not nearly such good 

 roads too, and by night ; while on May Day, 1830 (May 

 Day being the great day for coaches to race against time, 

 some of them with that object in view carrying no pas- 

 sengers), the Independent Tallyho, running between 

 London and Birmingham, covered the 109 miles in 



