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Printed notice for a Liverpool coaching inn, the Saracen’s Head, Dale Street.


This lists post and other coaches leaving Liverpool for London, Birmingham and Bristol. The Saracen’s Head is described as a Royal Mail and General Coach Office. The London Royal Mail is recorded as leaving every evening at 10.00pm, travelling through Litchfield and Coventry to the Swan with Two Necks, Lad Lane, and arriving the next evening at 9.00pm.

Date: Late 18th to early 19th century
Printer: J F Cannell, Leather Lane, Dale Street
Dimensions: Height 372mm; Width 170mm
Accession Number : 2005.81/3