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The Common Room / Re: How did people in Britain get about before 1820?
« on: Sunday 01 May 11 11:22 BST (UK) »
I may be way behind the postings here, didn't notice the dates, just the content.
Some of my ancestors walked up what is now the A49, well that is what we deduced it being a direct way, around 1811 From Tintern Abbey to Warrington, when the wire works was quietening down there and the industrial north was becoming, 'industrial.
My gt gt grandfather followed with his family in 1870. The train had not yet reached Tintern, that came in 1871. Did they walk? The river Wye was very busy, did they go by boat round Wales and down the Mersey, or did they go from tintern to Chepstow, ferry over to Bristol area and catch the train there. Who knows but it is fun trying to weave stories round the journey.
M
Some of my ancestors walked up what is now the A49, well that is what we deduced it being a direct way, around 1811 From Tintern Abbey to Warrington, when the wire works was quietening down there and the industrial north was becoming, 'industrial.
My gt gt grandfather followed with his family in 1870. The train had not yet reached Tintern, that came in 1871. Did they walk? The river Wye was very busy, did they go by boat round Wales and down the Mersey, or did they go from tintern to Chepstow, ferry over to Bristol area and catch the train there. Who knows but it is fun trying to weave stories round the journey.
M
