Stage coaching Two hundred years ago in England

Contemporary pictures by J & G Temple of Old English Stagecoaching .

To ride outside was half price and journeys started from inns or hotels.

Exciting but never comfortable,a journey could use upto a hundred horsepower, not all at once! 

Everyone had to give way to the Red and Black Royal Mail overnight coaches.                 

But most people just saw the coaches going by and never moved a few miles from their birthplace.