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Birds, stage coaches, and elixirs lure London shoppers
A crowded London advertisement column touts exotic birds from the West Indies and Virginia, a brimming sale at Tower Dock, and a Brandy sale in Lombard Street. It also promotes stage coaches from Slough to Bath London routes and a strengthening eye tonic claiming dramatic sight restoration, offered by various shops and makers in Haydon Yard and the Minories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ho Harty
Lumbard Street
Ward
Parsh
Geno Ache
Pitt
Angel Court
Snow-Eilh
John Obrifiet
Ingraver
Bedfordberry
St. Martins
Amerdevates
Michael Bland
Tower Dock
Great Tower Hill
England
Nagshead Court
Clements Lane
Lombard Street
Agath
Jamaica
London
Bath
Bristol
Thomas Baldwin
Chae and Cooper
Crown Inn
Slough
Windsor
Bowling Green House
Friday Street
New Church
May Pole
Strand
John Tilley
Swan Yard
Somerset House
John Howard
Chequer Inn
Chequer
Charing Cross
Morgan
White Hare
Tholfel
Mrs. Wilks
White Hart
King’s Bath
Altho
Nifker
C. Ic
West Indies
Paracelsus Vandelmonte
Haydon Yard