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The Bath Road: History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway
The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Bath Road, by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
Title: The Bath Road
History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway
Author: Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
Release Date: November 4, 2011 [eBook #37921]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BATH ROAD***
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THE BATH ROAD
WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
THE BRIGHTON ROAD: Old Times and New on a Classic Highway.
THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD, and its Tributaries, To-day, and in Days of Old.
THE DOVER ROAD: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike.
THE EXETER ROAD: The Story of the West of England Highway. [In the Press.
GEORGE THE THIRD TRAVELLING FROM WINDSOR TO LONDON, 1806.
(After R. B. Davis.)
The
BATH ROAD
HISTORY, FASHION, & FRIVOLITY ON
AN OLD HIGHWAY
By CHARLES G. HARPER
Author of “The Brighton Road,” “The Portsmouth Road,”
“The Dover Road,” &c. &c.
Illustrated by the Author, and from Old Prints
and Pictures
London: CHAPMAN & HALL, Limited
1899
(All Rights Reserved)
PRINTED BY
WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
LONDON AND BECCLES.
To E. T. COOK, Esq.
Dear Mr. Cook,
It was by your favour, as Editor of the Daily News, that the very gist of this book first saw the light, in the form of two articles in the columns of that paper. It seems, then, peculiarly appropriate that these pages—representing, in the measurements common to journalists and authors, a growth from four thousand to some sixty thousand words—should be inscribed to yourself.
Sincerely yours,
CHARLES G. HARPER.
This, the fourth volume in a series of books having for its object the preservation of so much of the Story of the Roads as may be interesting to the reading public, has been completed after considerable delay. The Dover Road, which preceded the present work, was published so long ago as the close of 1895, and in that book the Bath Road was (prematurely, it should seem, indeed) described as “In the Press.” Attention is drawn to the fact, partly in order to point out how quickly and how surely the old-time aspects of the roads are disappearing; for, since the Bath Road has been in progress, no fewer than four of the old inns pictured in these pages have disappeared, while great stretches of the road, once rural, have become suburban, and suburban streets have been so altered that they are in no wise distinguishable from those of town. It is because they will preserve the appearance and the memory of buildings that have had their day and are now being swept off the face of the earth, that it is hoped these volumes will find a welcome with those who care to cherish something of the records of a day that is done.
CHARLES G. HARPER.
Petersham, Surrey,
February, 1899.
| SEPARATE PLATES | ||
| PAGE | ||
| 1. | George the Third travelling from Windsor to London, 1806. (After R. B. Davis) | Frontispiece. |
| 2. | Coaching Miseries. (After Rowlandson) | 7 |
| 3. | Passengers refreshed after a Long Day’s Journey. (After Rowlandson) | 13 |
| 4. | The “White Bear,” Piccadilly | 23 |
| 5. | Allen’s Stall at Hyde Park Corner, about 1756 | 35 |
| 6. | Hyde Park Corner, 1797 | 41 |
| 7. | Kensington High Street, Summer Sunset | 47 |
| 8. | Colnbrook, a Decayed Coaching Town | |