2-791-417 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Folkestone: Arrival of the Indian Mail - Express Omnibus proceeding to receive it, 1844. Postal service between Britain and India - crowds watching the mail being transferred from a steamship to a horse-drawn omnibus: 'The Abstract Mail having thus escaped the perils of the water, and reached the Folkestone station in safety, is placed in the carriage of a special train'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol I.