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THE BATH ROAD 



started, is being clemolislied. The " White Horse," in 

 Fetter Lane, Holborn, fell upon evil days when rail- 

 ways revolutionized its custom. AMiere Lord Eldou 

 stayed in 1766, and whence many another aristocratic 

 traveller set forth, tramps and fourpenny " dossers " 

 found refuge. The " AVhite Horse" inn became the 

 "White Horse Chambers"— not the kind of chambers 





THE "white horse" INN, FETTER LANE. DEMOLISHED 1S98. 



understood in St. James's, but rather the cheap 

 cubicles of St. Giles's. 



Gary's "Itinerary" for 1821 (Gary was a guide, 

 philosopher, and friend without whom our grand- 

 fathers never travelled) gives no fewer than thirty- 

 seven stao-e-coaches which started from this old house. 

 There was the "Accommodation" to Oxford, at seven 

 o'clock in the morning ; the Bath and Bristol Light 



