3SO THE COACHING AGE. 



EuMMER Hotel. 



Boyal Mail md General Coach Office, High Street, Bristol. 



John Bland begs most respectfully to return his sincere th 

 to his friends and the public for the very liberal support 

 which they have been pleased to favour him, and also to d 

 their attention to the following list of 



Coaches and Vans 



which leave the above office, at very reduced fares, assuring t 

 that no exertion on his part shall be wanting to merit a 

 tinuance of that decided preference which he has hitherto 

 perienced. 



Birmingham Eoyal Mail, every evening at 7.30 o'clock.* 

 Gloucester „ „ „ „ 



Tewkesbury „ „ „ 



Worcester ,, „ „ „ 



Bromsgrove .„ „ „ „ 



Manchester and Liverpool Eoyal Mail, every evening at 

 o'clock. 



The above mail arrives in Birmingham in time for the first- 

 train to Manchester and Liverpool at six a.m. 



London (no fees). — The New Company's elegant light : 

 inside post-coaches, every morning at half-past six o'clock, 

 the Castle and Ball, Bath, at eight o'clock, to the New "W 

 Horse Cellar and Bull and Mouth, St. Martin's-le-G-rand, at 

 past eight o'clock in the evening. 



Fares — inside, £1 16s. ; outside, 18s. 



Dine at the King's Head, Thatcham, 2s. 6d. a head. 



* Of this mail I have a vivid recollection, as on it I passec 

 first night's travelling I had in my life ; but it was in the opp 

 direction, being from Birmingham to Bristol. The direct Bi 

 and Liverpool mail was put on a few years afterwards, anc 

 not go by way of Birmingham, but through Monmouth, Here 

 Ludlow, and Shrewsbury. 



