"A Coaching Revival" - A three-page typewritten foolscap document describing the background to the Red Rover coach service. The document goes on to give the details of the re-enactment of the service mentioning the route, the horse team owners and coachmen, the stabling arrangements, the horses and the coach guard. (ROP/013/001)
1953 Re-enactment of Red Rover Horse Drawn Stage Coach Service - Timetable Postcard sized folded stiff card timetable for the journey from London to Southampton and return which took place between 10th and 13th August 1953. The timetable lists the stopping points on the route. The journey of 85 miles took just over 12 hours and ... (ROP/013/002)
Black and white photograph of stage coach leaving Ropley and beginning the climb towards Four Marks during the re-enactment of the Red Rover journey between Southampton and London in August 1953. The coach is accompanied by horses and hounds from the Hampshire Hunt and is followed by motor vehicles. (ROP/013/003)
1953 Re-enactment of Red Rover Horse Drawn Stage Coach Service - Letter from Watney Combe Reid & Co to Mrs J Morgan of Elimore House, Ropley which refers to a photograph of the Red Rover Coach being accompanied by the Hampshire Hunt (HH). (ROP/013/004)
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