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This is an email sent via the SHCG List. If you reply to this message, your message will be sent to all the people on the list, not just the author of this message. --------------- I'm very sorry about that last email. I replied to the wrong email! Clare Parsons (09/06/2008 11:48): >Briony >Not sure if this helps but there is reference to Matthew Boulton borrowing >the Prince of Wales' wheelchair in 1802 - not just any chair would do for >Boulton! It appears that it was crated up and sent to Soho with >instructions to unlock the wheels before use. > >The reference is from the following book - > >p.125 The Hardware Man's Daughter, Matthew Boulton and his 'Dear Girl' by >Shena Mason, Phillimore Publications, 2005 (lovely book. £25 hardback, >available through amazon) > >The actual details may be in the Soho Archives held at Birmingham Central >Library, I'll confess that I haven't got time today to read the footnotes! > >There may also be references in Jenny Uglow's 'The Lunar Men'. > >I'm not sure right now if Ann Boulton, the subject of the first book, had >a special chair made for trips around the estate gardens, as she suffered >with ill health. It's a while since I read the book. > >Clare > > > > >Briony Hudson <[log in to unmask]> >Sent by: Social History Curators Group email list ><[log in to unmask]> >06/06/2008 12:41 >Please respond to >Social History Curators Group email list <[log in to unmask]> > > >To >[log in to unmask] >cc > >Subject >[SHCG-LIST] Invalid carriages > > > > > >This is an email sent via the SHCG List. If you reply to this message, >your message will be sent to all the people on the list, not just the >author of this message. >--------------- > >*Apologies for cross-posting* > > > >Dear all > > > >I've had an enquiry this morning from someone trying to track down >information about early invalid carriages, or even museums that hold any >examples. 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