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I was listening to my mother reminisce recently and she was talking about her father having visited an uncle who was a warder at Dartmoor Prison, around 1900 or so. Cue lots of Grimpen Mire imaginings from me. This impression was multiplied ten fold when I made some comments about transport - ie that he must have travelled by train - and she agreed that he had for the first part of the journey but when he reached Exeter he transferred to the regularly scheduled stage coach.
A stage coach! My grandpa travelled by stage coach when he was a little boy! He must have seen ostlers and team changing and maybe on the wilder bits they were on the look out for highwaymen? [Okay, that's probably silly but having an over-active imagination is what I DO.]
I was listening to my mother reminisce recently and she was talking about her father having visited an uncle who was a warder at Dartmoor Prison, around 1900 or so. Cue lots of Grimpen Mire imaginings from me. This impression was multiplied ten fold when I made some comments about transport - ie that he must have travelled by train - and she agreed that he had for the first part of the journey but when he reached Exeter he transferred to the regularly scheduled stage coach.
A stage coach! My grandpa travelled by stage coach when he was a little boy! He must have seen ostlers and team changing and maybe on the wilder bits they were on the look out for highwaymen? [Okay, that's probably silly but having an over-active imagination is what I DO.]
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Date: 2011-10-02 09:15 am (UTC)I read somewhere that one could take a peasant from the 14th century and plonk him down in a rural setting in 1900 and there wouldn't be anything you could explain to him quite easily - even stam trains are easily demonstable. Just 50 years later and society had altered so much even in the countryside the poor guy would think it was all witchcraft and these days it wouldn't happen at all because he'd be too unhygeinic!