James Maitland, my 3x and 4x great grandfather, was a Royal Mail coach driver - this illustration, dated 1808, was engraved by William Henry Pye and shows the type of coach he would have driven: Mail coaches were first introduced into the UK in 1784 in a bid to speed the woefully slow and inefficient… Continue reading Wheels
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