The Steam Coach - inn sign
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The Steam Coach - inn sign
Image: © Robin Webster Taken: 16 Nov 2014
The pub is on St John's Road. Depicted is a steam omnibus, not a steam coach. It is Hancock's 'Automaton' of 1835, which ran on London streets with limited success, although it was better than his earlier vehicles. It never got out as far as Hemel Hempstead.
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Image Location
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51.745669
Longitude
-0.481102