The prevailing winds in Britain are from the south west. Affluent suburbs were built to the west of cities so that the prevailing wind would blow smoke toward the east - where the poor lived.
[666.2] "Rob Roy with elevated prow":- In June 1821, Rob Roy was moved to Dover where she became the first steam powered packet between England and France. Below...
[666.4] "Captain Wise":- Captain Wyse listed as captain of the Britannia in 1817 [Ref: Early Clyde Steamboats by Andrew McKechnie http://www.dalmadan.com/?p=1135]
[666.5] "Anither course has Marion ta'en, She's cruizing on Lochlomond":- Below is a picture of Marion taken from an advertising handbill.
Lord Jeffrey,...
[666.6] "The Comet like its namesakes grown":- The Comet was the first steamboat to provide a regular passenger service in Europe. [Ref: Ransom P.J.G.; Bell's Comet: How...
[666.7] "the Steam-boat Robert Burns":- See bar599~Lines Written on the New Steamer Robert Burns
[666.8] In 1824 Harriston self-published a volume called "The steam-boat traveller's remembrancer : containing, poems descriptive of the principal watering places visited by the steam-boats from Glasgow /...
The Dart was a stagecoach that ran from the Swan...
Probably George Stanhope 6th Earl of Chesterfield 1805-1866 (i), The Stanhope family...
To "take someone in" is to play some sort of confidence trick...
A View of the Horse Fair at Smithfiled Market by Charles Pye
A. Newman and Co., job and postmaster, 121 Regent Street...
The railway has ruined me. Post riders were superseded by the railway. The railway...
The parcel mail Bob drove would be much the same as this one from the end of the century
Look after the horses for their owners. Below...
[Note 326.1] "I travelled for Gallipot, Cork, and Co." - Commercial travellers often used the railways. A gallipot is a small earthen glazed pot, especially. one used...
[Note 326.2] "Who served behind a first-class bar" - Stations were designed to minimise encounters between classes with separate waiting rooms refreshment rooms etc. By using the...
[Note 326.3] "the Chatham and Dover Line" - The London Chatham and Dover Railway opened in 1861. Its reputation for poor service is the subject of another...
[Note 326.4] "Or served the soup so very hot as the bell rang for the train / To “scald your mouth” or “leave the lot” / But...
[Note 326.5] "You may suppose she’d lots of beaux" - In fact the long hours worked by all railway servants, and the discipline imposed by the railway...
[Note 326.6] "All clothed in green with silver lace / On the collar of his coat a yard / An elegant foot for a Wellington Boot /...
