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death of her husband, and instead of ghing up, 

 decided to carry on, aided by Peter, her son. 

 Thirty coaches left her inn daily, among them the 

 first of the Birmingham " Tally-IIo's," a fast day 

 coach, established in 1823, and historically inter- 

 esting as the prime cause of the furious racing 

 that characterised the St. Albans and Coventry 

 route to Birmingham from this date until 1838. 

 Mrs. Mountain's coach-factory Avas at the rear of 

 her premises on Snow Hill. There she built the con- 

 veyances used by herself and partners, charging them 

 at the rather high rate of 3^f/. a mile for their use. 



A number of smaller pi'oprietors accounted, 

 between them, for many other coaches. Robert 

 Gray, once established at the " Belle Sauvage," 

 left that place in 1807 and settled at the " Bolt- 

 in-Tun," a house still standing in Pleet Street, 

 and now knoAvn as the " Bolt-in-Tun " London 

 and North-Western Railway Receiving Office. 

 He sent out twenty-five coaches daily, almost 

 exclusively down the southern and western roads, 

 among them the Portsmouth and the Hastings 

 mails, the latter a pair-horse concern. 



William Gilljert, of the " Blossoms " inn, 

 Laurence Lane, Cheapside, had also a pair-horse 

 mail — the "Brighton " — the "Tantivy," Birming- 

 ham coach, and a fast night coacli to IManchester, 

 the " Peveril of the Peak." Seventeen other 

 coaches left his yard. 



Joseph Hearn, proprietor of the " King's 

 Arms," Snow Hill, was monarch among the slow- 

 coaclies, of which he had twenty-two. Among 



