The Old Swan Inn, Hanley

In his Romance of Staffordshire (Published in the 1870s), Henry Wedgwood describes the Swan Inn, a coaching inn where stagecoaches to London, Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool stopped to pick up…

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Stagecoaches and Coaching Inns

A Red Rover Stagecoach In the 1830s, two mainline stagecoach services, the Red Rover and the Royal Express, that ran between London and Liverpool, passed through Tunstall. The coaches stopped at th…

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