THE BRIGHTON ROAD
HISTORIES OF THE ROADS
—BY—
Charles G. Harper.
THE BRIGHTON ROAD: The Classic Highway to the South.
THE GREAT NORTH ROAD: London to York.
THE GREAT NORTH ROAD: York to Edinburgh.
THE DOVER ROAD: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike.
THE BATH ROAD: History, Fashion and Frivolity on an old Highway.
THE MANCHESTER AND GLASGOW ROAD: London to Manchester.
THE MANCHESTER ROAD: Manchester to Glasgow.
THE HOLYHEAD ROAD: London to Birmingham.
THE HOLYHEAD ROAD: Birmingham to Holyhead.
THE HASTINGS ROAD: And The “Happy Springs of Tunbridge.”
THE OXFORD, GLOUCESTER AND MILFORD HAVEN ROAD: London to Gloucester.
THE OXFORD, GLOUCESTER AND MILFORD HAVEN ROAD: Gloucester to Milford Haven.
THE NORWICH ROAD: An East Anglian Highway.
THE NEWMARKET, BURY, THETFORD AND CROMER ROAD.
THE EXETER ROAD: The West of England Highway.
THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD.
THE CAMBRIDGE, KING’S LYNX AND ELY ROAD.
GEORGE THE FOURTH.
From the painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence, R.A.
The
BRIGHTON ROAD
The Classic Highway to the South
By CHARLES G. HARPER
Illustrated by the Author, and from old-time
Prints and Pictures
London:
CECIL PALMER
Oakley House, Bloomsbury Street, W.C. 1
First Published - 1892
Second Edition - 1906
Third and Revised Edition - 1922
Printed in Great Britain by C. Tinling & Co., Ltd.,
53, Victoria Street, Liverpool,
and 187, Fleet Street, London.
Many years ago it occurred to this writer that it would be an interestingthing to write and illustrate a book on the Road to Brighton. The genesisof that thought has been forgotten, but the book was written andpublished, and has long been out of print. And there might have been theend of it, but that (from no preconceived plan) there has since been addeda long series of books on others of our great highways, renderingimperative re-issues of the parent volume.
Two considerations have made that undertaking a matter of considerabledifficulty, either of them sufficiently weighty. The first was that theoriginal book was written at a time when the author had not arrived at asettled method; the second is found in the fact of the Brighton Road<