2-756-368 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'West Country Mails at the Gloucester Coffee House, Piccadilly', c1830, 1943). Coaches carrying mail between London and counties in the south-west of England. The coaches also carried passengers but conditions were cramped. Post Office employees or 'letter carriers' can be identified by their red uniforms. On the right is the establishment of Joseph Miller, 'Fish Salesman and at Billingsgate'. From "English Inns", by Thomas Burke. [Collins, London, 1943]