FAMAG 2007.15.2
Unknown artist (19th century): Royal Pearce's Hotel, Falmouth - The London , Plymouth & Penzance Mails Daily, Hearses & Mourning Coaches to any part of England, Coffee Room, signed, etching, 11 x 17.5 cms. Presented by Jo Willis in memory of her father, Dr John Deeble.
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This hotel dates from the Packet service, and was built to accommodate packet captains. It became the town's main coaching Inn and had stables, a smithy, and the town's first gasworks in the rear. The Royal Mail coaches departed for London daily, and it was from here that Charles Darwin caught a coach having arrived aboard The Beagle on the 2nd October 1836.