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during the summer season, and one from each Hotel daily, during winter. A coach also goes daily to Brighton, in the summer, and three times a week in the winter, passing through Lewes and Eastbourne ; another coach also leaves twice a week for Rye, Romney, Hythe, Folkestone, and Dover, to Margate."

Ross's Guide of 1835, gives a list of the coaches then running : The Express, The Royal Regulator, The Paragon, The Warrior and The Despatch.

Lent by Miss Clark.

 

The Paragon Coach, 1835. From original Block found in Ransom's Printing Office, 42, George Street.

Photo

F. J. Parsons Ltd.

 

One of the Motor Coaches - 1920

With the opening of the railways the coaches disappeared one by one. For some years the Char-a-bancs were popular with the public for excursions in the country, until a few years ago the four-horse coach again came into public use, and several well--