Coachmen Collection

High Street, Barnes, West London
A simply stunning real photographic postcard showing the High Street, Barnes, West London, featuring a very smart carriage (left) with two finely-dressed coachmen and a horse bus behind

George VI & Elizabeth
George VI and Elizabeth, later the Queen Mother, on their wedding day in 1923 when they were Duke and Duchess of York: a carriage ride with royal coachmen

Mail coach on the High Street at Stony Stratford
A packed vintage four-horse mail coach on the High Street at Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire. Due to the juxtaposition of two hotels in the centre of town, The Cock and The Bull (pictured)

George V leaving Victoria Station, London
King George V leaving Victoria Station in Central London by horse-drawn coach after meeting some of the foreign heads of state who have come over for King Edward VII's funeral. Date: 1910

White couple in horse drawn buggy, Jamaica, c. 1890
White couple with black coachmen in horse drawn buggy, Jamaica, c.1890

Stagecoach outside The Sugar Loaf Hotel, Dunstable
Vinatge Stagecoach pulled up outside The Sugar Loaf Hotel, 44 High Street North, Dunstable, Bedfordshire. Date: circa 1910

The General Election - True Blue
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - True Blue. A Candidate takes a few local yokels out for a ride in his carriage to show solidarity with the common man voter... 1908

Vienna, Austria - Visit by King Edward VII
Vienna, Austria - Visit by British King Edward VII to Emperor Franz Joseph I. Date: 1903

Heritage mail coach speeding through Folkestone
Four-horse team heritage mail coach speeding through Folkestone, Kent. circa 1910s

UK General Election 1906 - Winners as the True Blue
The General Election - Comic postcard showing the delight amid the working class at the landslide defeat for the Conservative Party and their Liberal Unionist allies

Galloping across the map -- a mailcoach speeds through the night in the early days of the postal service. Date: 1932

The driver of His Majestys Mail, 1828 -- two men on a mailcoach in the early days of the postal service. Date: 1932

Waiting for His Lordship, Lord Mayors Show, 1895
" The state coachman of the Lord Mayor at the law courts on Lord Mayors Day." " Waiting for His Lordship" Date: 1895

Preparations for the Lord Mayors Show, 1894, Paul Renouard
Preparations for the Lord Mayors Show: Footmen and coachmen trying on the new liveries. Date: 1894

Coach & horses in winter. Georgian scene. Coachmen trying to guide their team through winter snows on the Dover to London road.Date: circa 1905

A burly Russian coachman, Moscow, Russia
A Russian coachman and his carriage, Moscow, Russia Date: circa 1903

A burly Russian coachman, Moscow, in his summer outfit of coat and peaked cap - a style only worn by coachmen. Date: circa 1904

LCC-LFB steam fire engine racing in Hyde Park
King Edward VII took the Review of the London Fire Brigade in Hyde Park. Part of the review involved a demonstration of driving skills by the coachmen of the London Fire Brigade

LCC-LFB Knightsbridge fire station stables
Opened on 27 June 1907, Knightsbridge fire station was located at 16 Basil Street. Horses would remain in use in the London Fire Brigade until 1921

Wedding of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia
State Entry into Berlin of Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858-1921) and Prince Wilhem of Prussia (later Kaiser Wilhelm II) (1859-1941)

Royal Wedding in Berlin
The marriage of Princess Irene of Hesse (1866-1953) to Prince Heinrich (Henry) of Prussia (1862-1929) on 24th May 1888 at Charlottenburg Palace

George VI and Queen Elizabeth leaving Buckingham Palace
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, with Princess Margaret, in an open coach, leaving Buckingham Palace for the Festival of Britain dedication service at St Pauls Cathedral, London. Date: 3 May 1951

Royal Stables Copenhagen
The Royal Stables, Copenhagen - grooms and coachmen tend and inspect the horses. Date: 1888

Queen Mary and the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) in an open carriage on their way to a royal visit to Kensington

George V receiving address, Grays Inn, London
King George V receiving an Address from the Benchers (senior lawyers) at Grays Inn, London. Queen Mary sits next to him in an open carriage

Coach Drivers / Stables
Two coachmen, including a driver (right), leaving the stables

Fleet Street 1746
Temple Bar, straddling Fleet Street, is picturesque - but for coachmen and carriers it is, literally, a bar to traffic. But it won t be moved till 1878

London Carriages C18
A row of carriages, with their coachmen, await their masters who are no doubt in conference - or at luncheon - within

Carriage in the Bois
An elegant Parisienne drives with her dog in an open carriage in the Bois de Boulogne

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