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Thanks John - looks like I got my positioning a bit wrong. Appreciated. Tom

Sorry if this is incorrect but is this pub on the corner of Great Francis Street and Duddeston Mill Road

Can anyone tell me if this street had a different name in the 1800s - perhaps Dollman or Inkerman street? Cheers Tom

Hi Mike, this is utterly awesome. Thanks for the find. I thought it might have been cropped.

Here is a close up from the station building from behind

Hi Vivienne, I can assure you, as someone published and with considerable expertise on this, that it is Curzon St. I’m not saying that every detail is accurate.

Thank you. Yes indeed. I've tried all the permutations - such as right date wrong year, wrong month, all of the Septembers, even all the issues between 1859 and 1870.. I actually don't think that it is ILN. But it isn't in the Illustrated Weekly either! So I'm stuck.

Hi everyone, this image of Curzon Street Station has been confirmed as being dated post 1859. It is has been published and credited as being from the Illustrated London News 18th September 1865. I have trawled a whole range of options through the ILN copies and can't find it. I wonder if the...

Dear Stokkie, my interest is amateur research and modelling. I should say assisting in modelling. I'm providing a friend with historical details for a model of the wonder. Thus the focus on the livery details. Really appreciate your help. Cheers Tom

Dear Pedrocut, yes as you say below, yes I'm afraid this is 'Mail'

Thanks Pedrocut, interesting. Harper also talks about a fierce competition between another of Horne's coaches, Nimrod and the Wonder, which of course was Sherman's at the London End.

Interesting, I'd agree if we had an earlier candidate.

Frederick Rosenberg Painter and aquatinter, worked after Pollard. Born in Bath, the son of the profilist and engraver Charles [Christian] Rosenberg (c.1756-1844) and younger brother of the engraver Charles Rosenberg (1794-1866). He signed at least one London print (1880,1113.3560), 1831, but...

Hi Stokkie, that is a really interesting thought. There was for example a John Hall of the Castle Inn, Broadgate, Coventry, 1850 - 1868.

I've found at least 7 other Wonder coaches in the time period.

Hi Mikejee, the coach went to Holyhead, the passengers went by ferry to Ireland.

James Pollard painted a picture of the 1829 Wonder Coach, it is sometimes titled, in it's print form, etched by Rosenburg, The Birmingham Wonder Stage Coach. In this depiction the stage coach door, which would normally carry the name of the coach owner and proprietor, has the name J. Hall. I...

Dear Joe, really enjoyed your 'blog' on your journey. Just wondered if you can shed any light on the following. James Pollard painted a picture of the 1829 Wonder Coach, it is sometimes titled, in it's print form, etched by Rosenburg, The Birmingham Stage Coach. In this depiction the stage coach...