THIS PILLAR IS CALLED

MAIL COACH PILLAR AND ERECTED

AS A CAUTION TO KEEP FROM INTOXICATION

AND IN MEMORY OF THE GLOUCESTER

& CARMARTHEN MAIL COACH

WHICH WAS DRIVEN BY

EDWARD JENKINS ON THE 19 DAY OF

DECEMBER IN THE YEAR 1835, WHO

WAS INTOXICATED AT THE TIME &

DROVE THE MAIL ON THE WRONG

SIDE OF THE ROAD AND GOING AT

A FULL SPEED OR GALLOP MET A

CART & PERMITTED THE LEADER

TO TURN SHORT ROUND TO THE RIGHT

HAND & WENT DOWN OVER THE

PRECIPICE 121 FEET WHERE AT THE

BOTTOM NEAR THE RIVER IT CAME

AGAINST AN ASH TREE WHEN THE

COACH WAS DASHED INTO

SEVERAL PIECES

COLONEL GWYNN OF GLAN BRIAN

PARK, DANIEL JONES ESQ OF

PENYBONT & A PERSON OF THE

NAME OF EDWARDS WERE OUTSIDE

& DAVID LLOYD HARRIS ESQ OF

LLANDOVERY SOLICITOR AND A LAD OF

THE NAME OF KERNICK(?) WERE INSIDE

PASSENGERS BY THE MAIL AT THE

TIME AND JOHN COMPTON OUTSIDE

I HAVE HEARD SAY WHERE THERE IS

A WILL THERE IS A WAY ONE PERSON

CANNOT ASSIST MANY, BUT MANY CAN

ASSIST A FEW AS THIS PILLAR WILL

SHEW WHICH WAS SUGGESTED

DESIGNED AND ERECTED BY J.BULL

INSPECTOR OF MAIL COACHES, WITH

THE AID OF THIRTEEN POUNDS

SIXTEEN SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE

RECEIVED BY HIM FROM FORTY ONE

SUBSCRIBERS IN THE YEAR 1841

The work of this Pillar was

Executed by JOHN JONES

Marble & Stone Mason Llanddarog

near Carmarthen

REPAINTED AND RESTORED

BY POSTAL OFFICIALS 1930