 | 1855 - 550 pages
...Tilbury Fort, which our author seems to have borne painfully in mind, he speaks in hearty disgust : " Of all the cursed roads that ever disgraced this kingdom...is for near ten miles so narrow that a mouse cannot pass by any carriage. I saw a fellow creep under his waggon to assist me to lift, if possible, my chaise... | |
 | ALEXANDRA ANDTEWS - 1856 - 370 pages
...Tilbury Fort, which our author seems to have borne painfully in mind, he speaks in hearty disgust: " Of all the cursed roads that ever disgraced this kingdom...is for near ten miles so narrow that a mouse cannot pass by any carriage. I saw a fellow creep under his waggon to assist me to lift, if possible, my chaise... | |
 | Alexander Andrews - England - 1856 - 372 pages
...Tilbury Fort, which our author seems to have borne painfully in mind, he speaks in hearty disgust: " Of all the cursed roads that ever disgraced this kingdom...is for near ten miles so narrow that a mouse cannot pass by any carriage. I saw a fellow creep under his waggon to assist me to lift, if possible, my chaise... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Bridges - 1861 - 532 pages
...i'iv.1 ''l>J'al t§!• cursed roads," he savs, H:»' t-= ;:= '=' -' •/ in England im Jahrc 1782.' " that ever disgraced this kingdom in the very ages...Billericay to the King's Head at Tilbury. It is for near twelve miles so narrow that a mouse cannot pass by any carriage. I saw a fellow creep under his waggon... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1867 - 394 pages
...incredible depth," and he almost swore at one near Tilbury. " Of all the cursed roads," he says, " that ever disgraced this kingdom in the very ages...Billericay to the King's Head at Tilbury. It is for near twelve miles so narrow that a mouse cannot pass by any carriage. I saw a fellow creep under his waggon... | |
 | William Palin - 1871 - 254 pages
...Christian Emperor, Constantine. They continued the road on this side by West Tilbury, Stauford-le-hope, Horndon-on-hill, Laindon Hill, and Laindon church...is for near ten miles so narrow that a mouse cannot pass by any carriage. I saw a fellow creep under his waggon to assist me to lift, if possible, my chaise... | |
 | John Hollingshead - 1874 - 378 pages
...England for pleasure, than of going to Nubia. ' Of all the cursed roads,' says Arthur Young in 1769, ' that ever disgraced this kingdom in the very ages...barbarism, none ever equalled that from Billericay to Tilbury. It is for near twelve miles so narrow that a mouse cannot pass by any carriage. I saw a fellow... | |
 | England - 1886 - 848 pages
...Buller. Two years before he had given little Samuel Taylor Coleridge a presentation to Christ's Hospital. barbarism, none ever equalled that from Billericay to the King's Head at Tilbury. It is for near twelve miles so narrow that л mouse cannot pass by any carriage. I saw a fellow creep under his waggon... | |
 | Miller Christy - Bars (Drinking establishments) - 1887 - 206 pages
...— evidently dating from the era of the Stuarts or earlier. Arthur Young, in 1771, declares that " of all the cursed roads that ever disgraced this kingdom...that from Billericay to the KING'S HEAD at Tilbury." In 1678 a KING'S HEAD at Rickling formed a house of call for Poor Robin •on his Perambulation from... | |
 | Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - Agriculture - 1888 - 338 pages
...chalk wagons buried so deep in the mire that they could only be extricated by thirty or forty horses. * Of all the cursed roads that ever disgraced this kingdom in the very age of barbarism none ever equalled that from Billericay to the " King's Head " at Tilbury,' was the... | |
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Of all the cursed roads that ever disgraced this kingdom in the very ages of barbarism, none ever equalled that from Billericay to the King's Head at Tilbury. 
