Richard 'Dickey Wood who Started the Manchester Defiance (aka Manchester & Leeds Defiance ) coach service, Yorkshire in 1786. He was also a publican & farmer as well as the principal coach proprietor in Doncaster, and across Yorkshire. worked many of the stages both on the main and the cross roads. He horsed the Rockingham and the Highflyer, and had over two hundred horses engaged in the horsed several pair-horse coaches which ran between Doncaster and Sheffield, Nottingham, Wakefield, Thorne, Hull, Lincoln, Stamford, Gainsborough, &c. Some of the heavy luggage waggons and pos

---

Size: 4724px × 5906px
Photo credit: © Colin Waters / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: &, 1700s, 1786, 18th, britain, british, business, century, chief, coach, coaching, days, defiance, dick, dickey, doncaster, eighteenth, england, english, engraving, farmer, highflyer, historic, horse, horses, innkeeper, landlord, launched, leeds, main, manchester, owner, portrait, principal, proprietor, pub, publican, richard, rockingham, service, services, stables, stabling, stagecoach, started, wood, yorkshire