Chapter XIX: Returned Letter Office 292

ILLUSTRATIONS.

THE POSTMASTER'S OFFICE, BRISTOL Preface iv

RALPH ALLEN OF CROSS POST FAME _Page_ 8

" HIS RESIDENCE AT PRIOR PARK, BATH 10

" HIS TOWN HOUSE IN BATH 12

" HIS TOMB AT CLAVERTON 16

JOHN PALMER, INTRODUCER OF MAIL COACHES 20

OLD ENGLISH "FLYING" MAIL COACH 22

MAIL COACH. PLATE DEDICATED TO PALMER 34

THE WEST COUNTRY MAIL COACHES ABOUT TO LEAVE
PICCADILLY 36

THE LAST OF THE MAIL GUARDS 44

ARRIVAL OF THE BATH AND BRISTOL MAIL COACH AT
ROADSIDE INN 48

START OF MAIL COACHES FROM BUSH INN, BRISTOL 52

THE OLD PASSAGE, AUST 56

JOHN GARDINER 70

THOMAS TODD WALTON, SENIOR 72

THOMAS TODD WALTON, JUNIOR 74

EDWARD CHADDOCK SAMPSON 80

SIR FRANCIS FREELING, BART 82

THE BRISTOL HEAD POST OFFICE IN 1899 118

THE "GREAT WESTERN" 152

R.M.S. "MONTEREY" 158

THE PUBLIC HALL OF THE BRISTOL POST OFFICE 186

THE TELEGRAPH INSTRUMENT ROOM, BRISTOL 204

CRIBBS CAUSEWAY POST OFFICE 261

MR. EDWARD BIDDLE 263

LETTER BOX AT WINTERBOURNE 269

HANNAH BREWER, THE BITTON POSTWOMAN 276