Travel in the 19th century

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Travel options Whites Directory 1862

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Travel Options Whites Directory 1879

 

 

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Mary Jackson, carrier from warehouse, Furnival Street. 

Advertisement from Whites Directory 1837

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[Edmund]

In February 1836 Mary Jackson was charged by the overlooker of the Balby weighing machine with having 21 cwt on her waggon, on its way from Thorne to Sheffield.  This was in excess of the weight allowed by Act of Parliament, which subjected her to the charge of £3 9s 6d to the trustees of the Tinsley and Doncaster turnpike road. In 1840 she was fined 40s plus 4s costs for not having her name on her wagggon. In June of that year she was summoned for travelling on a Sunday - the fact was admitted, but the case was dismissed due to a number of mitigating facts - the act only applied to waggons, not stage coaches (as these didn't exist when the act was passed), the act was widely disregarded, the owner had been summoned (it should have been the driver), one of the horses cast a shoe and the driver had to fetch the blacksmith out of church, and finally the vehicle was a fish waggon and thus exempt.

By September 1840 she had started using the new railway system to and from Hull. Apart from cheaper rates, this meant that any goods going onto ships at the docks only had to be trans-shipped once (from railway to vessel).  At this point she had several horses that were now redundant and had to be sold off. One of her customers, a Mr Benjamin Oates, a cutler and small farmer from Owlerton, came to purchase a horse, but the ones at the Sheffield warehouse did nor suit due to the price.  Mrs Jackson suggested that one of her horses that was currently out on the road would suit him, and was only £10. She agreed to deliver the horse with some gear (including a new collar) for an additional £2 12s, on a trial basis. Various acquaintances of Oates told him that the horse and gear was only worth about half of the discussed price. Oates kept the horse and declined to pay, telling the story that he had only rented it.  Mrs Jackson chased for payment and eventually Oates returned it, though Mrs Jackson now demanded a rental payment for the period he had used it.  After going to court in April 1842, she was awarded £11 10s for the rental.  

Mary Jackson died aged 61 at Hoyland on Tuesday 16th November 1847.

[Ponytail]

She sounds a tough woman to have done business with. 

[Athy]

Yes, quite a character by the sound of it.

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Travel Options, Sheffield & Rotherham from Whites Directory 1852.

 

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Messrs. Lister & Co., 104 Eyre Street, succeeded the business of Mrs. Sarah Lister, carriers and agents to the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway. 

Also in connection with Messrs. Chaplin & Horne of London, (office 14 Market Street, Sheffield), agents to London & North Western Railway and with Messrs. Thompson, McKay & Co., Manchester and Liverpool. 

 

Advertisement from Whites Directory 1862.

 

[Athy]

What a thankless task it must have been, crewing that locomotive in rain or snow. Compare the 1851 American 2-2-2T engine 'Pioneer' whose designer knew how to provide comforts for the crew.

[MartinR]

Surprisingly perhaps, but footplatemen often opposed the introduction of enclosed cabs.  They restricted vision, could get very hot and dusty, and had a reputation for not allowing the crew to jump off in an emergency!

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Railway Ticket for the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway issued in Sheffield in 1838.   Postcard dated 1906.

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This image was originally part of the Tim Hale Photographic Collection. It was purchased at auction in September 2019 through donations from members of the public and a grant from the Graves Trust.

 

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Advertisement for Thos. Cook and Son, [travel agents], Change Alley Corner. 1888.

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Advertisement reads: 

Messrs. Thos. Cook and Son, the largest railway and steamship agents in the world. Issue tickets and secure berths by all Lines of Steamers and all parts of the World at their branch office: Change Alley Corner, Sheffield. Foreign money exchanged and drafts issued to any amount.

Image from The Bee, vol. 1 no. 6 (page 7) (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 052.74 S).