Notes on slides for Talk on

William Brown's

Account Book 1851-8
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Setting the Scene Tring Events before 1850

  

  • Tring was a Market Town with plenty of stage coach business

  • 1799 Canal Arrives – transporting heavy goods becomes easier

  • Tring's West End Development

  • 1837 Railway Arrives – Long distance stage coach traffic disappears overnight.

  • 1838 Hunting interests