2 7^ STAGE-COACH AND MAIL IN DAYS OF YORE 



and deserve the patronage and support of the 

 large and busy community on that line of road. 

 The E;ED Hover will start every evening, at a 

 quarter before seven, by way of 



Coventry, Stafford, Macclesfield, 



Birmingham, Newcastle-under- and 



Walsall, Lyme, Stockport, 



Congleton, 

 and 2:)erform the journey in the time which before 

 gave such general satisfaction. 



1^ It will also start from the ' Moseley 

 Arms ' Hotel, Manchester, for London, every 

 evening, at nine o'clock. 



Edward Sherman, ) Joint 



John Wetherald & Co., j Proprietors. 



Lomloii, Octoher 28/A, 1837." 



It was a gallant effort, but failed. Manchester 

 men had grumbled at railway delays, but they 

 were not sentimentalists, and when the London 

 and Birmingham Hallway Avas opened through- 

 out, and an uninterrujoted run through to Man- 

 chester Avas })ossible, they forsook the road, and the 

 " lied Hover " roved no more. 



But still, sentiment gushed freely over the 

 coaches in every channel of the periodical press, 

 except, of course, in those railway journals that 

 even thus early had come into existence. Poetry, 

 of sorts, Avas lavished on the coachmen by the 

 bucketful, and they were made to consider them- 

 selves martyrs in a lost cause. Tliey felt them- 



