Old Coaching Days / Some Incidents in the Life of Moses James Nobbs, the last of the Mail Coach Guards

The memoir recounts the author's long service as a mail coach guard and later postal officer, tracing day-to-day duties on coaches and at a major railway terminus and offering vivid reminiscences of travel, ceremonial occasions, and workplace changes. It interweaves practical anecdotes—such as attempts to perform traditional guard rituals, episodes from special coach runs, and interactions with colleagues and police—with reflections on technological and institutional change as stagecoaches gave way to railways. Throughout, the narrative emphasizes personal devotion to duty, the physical routines and material culture of postal work, and the adjustments required by retirement after decades of service.