<i>Past and Present through Victoiran Eyes</i>, 1845. Colour print showing a derelict coach in a farmyard with a steam railway in the background, to illustrate the demise of travel by coach in favour of the railways. The abandoned and dilapidated coach is topped with a pile of straw and surrounded by hens, a cockerel, pigs, ducks, ducklings and a horse. Beyond the farmyard are more farmyard animals including cows and a cowherd, who is watching a passing steam train. In the distance is a pristine newly built station.
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Unattributed. Printed by Leighton Bros.</div>
1845<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1845-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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