 | Dionysius Lardner - Natural history - 1859 - 462 pages
...parts of the north of England better. He says of a road near Newcastle, now superseded by a railway, " A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged to hire two men at one place to support ray chaise from overturning. Let me persuade all travellers to avoid this terrible country, which must... | |
 | Eliza Meteyard - Pottery - 1865 - 554 pages
...support my chaise from overthrowing, in turning out for a cart of goods overthrown and almost buried. Let me persuade all travellers to avoid this terrible...with broken pavements, or bury them in muddy sand.' ' The same writer describes the road from Newcastle to Burslem as being full of muddy ruts cut deep... | |
 | Eliza Meteyard - Potters - 1865 - 570 pages
...overthrowing, in turning out for a cart of goods overthrown and almost buried. Let me persuade nll travellers to avoid this terrible country, which must...with broken pavements, or bury them in muddy sand.' ' The same writer describes the road from Newcastle to Burslem as being full of 1 Tour through the... | |
 | Eliza Meteyard - Potters - 1865 - 548 pages
...the least sandy, the pavement is discontinued, and the ruts and holes most execrable. I was forced to hire two men at one place, to support my chaise from overthrowing, in turning out for a cart of goods overthrown and almost buried. Let me persuade all... | |
 | Henry Law - 1877 - 416 pages
...three carts, broken down, in those eighteen miles of execrable memory." " To Newcastle. Turnpike. — A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged...with broken pavements, or bury them in muddy sand." Even so much later as the year 1809, the roads answered to the description of Mr. Young. Mr. CW Ward,... | |
 | Thomas Allan Croal - Transportation - 1877 - 642 pages
...down in those eighteen miles of execrable memory." Of a road near Newcastle, the same writer says, "A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged...with broken pavements, or bury them in muddy sand. It is only bad management that can occasion such very miserable roads in a country so abounding with... | |
 | Henry Law - Pavements - 1877 - 416 pages
...three carts, broken down, in those eighteen miles of execrable memory." " To Newcastle. Turnpike. — A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged...with broken pavements, or bury them in muddy sand." Even so much later as the year 1809, the roads answered to the description of Mr. Young. Mr. 0. W.... | |
 | Institution of Municipal Engineers (Great Britain) - Municipal engineering - 1881 - 174 pages
...passed three carts broken down in those eighteen miles, of execrable memory, to Newcastle turnpike. A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged...with broken pavements or bury them in muddy sand." There were at that time some decently-kept roads, but they were few and far between. When Turnpike... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Great Britain - 1887 - 648 pages
...support my chaise from overthrowing in turning out for a cart of goods overthrown and almost buried. Let me persuade all travellers to avoid this terrible...with broken pavements or bury them in muddy sand.' Beyond Newcastle to the north 1 Chalmers' Estimate, p. 128. CH. xim. PALMER'S COACHES. 177 lay a country... | |
 | Henry Law, Daniel Kinnear Clark - Pavements - 1890 - 424 pages
...three carts, broken down, in those eighteen miles of execrable memory." " To Newcastle. Turnpike. — A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged...to avoid this terrible country, which must either dislocste their bones with broken pavements, or bury them in muddy sand." Even so much later as the... | |
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A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged to hire two men at one place to support my chaise from overturning. Let me persuade all travellers to avoid this terrible country, which must either dislocate their bones with broken pavements, or... 
