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language of the Ring, 'dead settled.' For four long years the 

 sound of the bars and the echo of the horn were not heard in 

 Piccadilly, and the ancient steps of Hatchett's were deserted 

 by all save those who were lodging in the hotel. In 1866, 

 however, a slight sign of the coming revival appeared on the 

 coaching horizon. Captain Haworth led the way, and was 

 joined by the Duke of Beaufort, Colonel Armitage, Mr. Lawriej 

 Mr. B. J. Angell, Lord H. Thynne, Mr. Chandos Pole, Mr. 

 C. Lyley, with another or two. This little band instituted a 

 subscription coach, which they called the Old Times, and ran 

 it to Brighton, on alternate days, with William Pratt as their 

 professional coachman. In the course of its brief season the 

 coach carried a good many passengers ; but the venture turned 

 out a failure ; coach, horses, harness, and all belongings being 

 sold at Tattersall's in the autumn, when the confederacy was 

 broken up. 



The pecuniary failure of the opening year of the coaching 

 revival, however, so far from tending to damp the enthusiasm 

 for the road, appears to have stimulated it ; as in 1867 we find 

 Mr. Chandos Pole, Mr. Angell, and the Duke of Beaufort 

 engaged in a much more ambitious venture than that of 1866. 

 This took the form of running a coach up and down, between 

 London and Brighton, every day. William Pratt, who had 

 formerly driven a coach between Malvern and Cheltenham, 

 retained his old berth, and, with George Dackombe as guard, 

 drove on 'one side of the road,' while Alfred Tedder (who 

 remained on the Brighton road till the time of his death, in 

 December 1872), was on the other coach, with Phillips as his 

 guard. The London terminus was the White Horse Cellar ; 

 the Albion Hotel was the corresponding point at London- 

 super-Mare ; and the coaches were two new ones, built by 

 Holland & Holland. Mr. Chandos Pole worked out of 

 Brighton ; Mr. Chandos-Pole-Gell, a sleeping partner in the 

 concern, for his name did not appear in the list of proprietors, 

 horsed the coach from Cuckfield to Friars Oak ; the Duke of 

 Beaufort had the middle ground, and Mr. Angell found the 



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