'The Liverpool Mail in a Snow-Drift', 1837.

Social History (Museum of St Albans)

2005.5852

Hand-coloured lithograph. Drawn by James Pollard (1792-1865), lithograph by G.B. Campion. Published London, February 1st 1837 by R. Ackermann & Co., Strand. ' The Liverpool Mail, in a snow drift - Two ladies left in their chariot without horses - The Post Boy having gone to St Albans in search of fresh ones '. The scene here is on the London Road a mile south of St Albans on Boxing Day 1836. Snow began to fall on Christmas night and continued for a week, with particularly heavy falls around St Albans. The rest of the story is told in the title; the ladies probably doubt that the post boy will return. Pollard made at least two versions of this lithograph. This one, with the leaden sky and snowdrift of white paint, accurately shows St Albans from the south-east, with the toll gate visible where the railway bridge now crosses the London Road.

1837

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