The King's Post / Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time

The book traces the development of postal and mail coach services serving Bristol from the late sixteenth century into the early twentieth century, combining archival records, administrative reports, and contemporary anecdotes. It examines foot and running posts, early post houses, coaching inns and turnpike roads; profiles postal innovators and administrators and documents mail-coach practices, robberies, accidents, and technological shifts from horse to rail and motor conveyance. Detailed chapters address local offices, telegraph and telephone systems, wartime service, postal charities, quirky addresses, and official visits, and the text is richly illustrated with period engravings and reproductions of postal ephemera.