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The romance of road-coaching in Australia ... "It abounds with incident and accident by flood and fell, by field and forest. Over miles of drought-stricken plains, through leagues of raging bush-fires, amid incessant rains and through the raging waters of swollen rivers, Cobb's coaches plunged along, beneath blazing sun-heat and in blinding storm, in heat and in cold, in midnight darkness and the crash of elemental war. The three great lamps have glowed in the blackest night as beacons of hope and messengers of civilisation, Cobb's mailcoach typifying a red link between the active world of affairs and the expatriated dwellers of the far Out-back." ... On this journey, take a long stop at ‘Abercrombie House’, an Australian heritage treasure in Bathurst, N.S.W. The property was established by Major-General William Stewart in the 1820s, and more recently, home of the Morgan Family for over half a century. In the roaring days, the Cobb and Co. coaches travelled on the west and southwest roads that went straight through the middle of this property. Read more in Book 3 ...
Follow the history of the firm that ran under the style of ‘Cobb and Co.’ ... journey through floods, fire, coach accidents, bail-ups by bushrangers and the like ... enjoy the amusing anecdotes ...
All information evidenced-based and referenced, all compiled by Hazel Johnson.
Cobb and Co.'s many proprietors identified, as well as nearly 1,000 of Cobb's coach drivers.
The romance of road-coaching in Australia ... "It abounds with incident and accident by flood and fell, by field and forest. Over miles of drought-stricken plains, through leagues of raging bush-fires, amid incessant rains and through the raging waters of swollen rivers, Cobb's coaches plunged along, beneath blazing sun-heat and in blinding storm, in heat and in cold, in midnight darkness and the crash of elemental war. The three great lamps have glowed in the blackest night as beacons of hope and messengers of civilisation, Cobb's mailcoach typifying a red link between the active world of affairs and the expatriated dwellers of the far Out-back." ... On this journey, take a long stop at ‘Abercrombie House’, an Australian heritage treasure in Bathurst, N.S.W. The property was established by Major-General William Stewart in the 1820s, and more recently, home of the Morgan Family for over half a century. In the roaring days, the Cobb and Co. coaches travelled on the west and southwest roads that went straight through the middle of this property. Read more in Book 3 ...
Follow the history of the firm that ran under the style of ‘Cobb and Co.’ ... journey through floods, fire, coach accidents, bail-ups by bushrangers and the like ... enjoy the amusing anecdotes ...
All information evidenced-based and referenced, all compiled by Hazel Johnson.
Cobb and Co.'s many proprietors identified, as well as nearly 1,000 of Cobb's coach drivers.
