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their attention to passengers ; indeed one gallant colonel was 

 so pleased with Mr. Angell's performance that he insisted on 

 his accepting half a sovereign, which the recipient used to 

 wear on his watch-chain. It was in 1869, too, that the 

 memories of the Oxford road were revived ; for Mr. John 

 Eden, with Lord Aveland, and one or two more as sub- 

 scribers, put on the Prince of Wales coach, which started 

 from the Scotch Stores, Oxford Street, to High Wycombe, 

 via Gerrard's Cross, following the course of the Wendover 'bus 

 through Uxbridge ; E. Elston was the first coachman and 

 guard. Mr. Wm. Sheather, subsequently well known on the 

 Dorking road, found the horses, and continued to do so, we 

 believe, as long as the coach ran. 



In 1870 Mr. Hoare still ran to Tunbridge Wells, but, 

 instead of working single-handed, had for partners Lord 

 Kenlis, Colonel Chaplin and Colonel Hathorn ; while General 

 Dickson and Captain Candy tried their luck with a coach to 

 Virginia Water. This venture, however, was not a success, 

 and, as it worked on Sundays, scandalised some of the weaker 

 brethren. The Windsor coach, in the same hands as in the 

 preceding year, had a rather merry season, and, during the Ascot 

 week, did good business by running through to the racecourse, 

 leaving Hatchett's at ten in the morning. On Tuesday, 

 Wednesday and Friday the fare was i/., with IDS. extra for the 

 box-seat, but on Thursday this tariff was doubled. This, how- 

 ever, was its last season for some time. The Brighton road still 

 flourished, though Mr. Chandos-Pole-Gell's name was no longer 

 found in the list of proprietors. As the horses were stabled in 

 Farm Street Mews, through the kindness of Mr. Willis, a great 

 friend to the undertaking, the Ship at Charing Cross was given 

 up, and the coach once more started from Hatchett's. The usual 

 arrangement was for Colonel Stracey-Clitherow to drive as far 

 as Redhill, where he was relieved by Mr. Chandos Pole, who 

 made way for Mr. G. Meek at Lowfield Heath, Mr. C. Pole 

 again taking the reins at Friars Oak. When his services were 

 required Tedder was still professional, and Mclntyre guard. 



