R B Lees Coaching Inn

[ShaunJ]

In the 1911 census there is a coachman in Toxteth (Liverpool) named Joseph Thomas Meakin, born circa 1873 in Derbyshire. He worked for an undertaker but that wouldn't necessarily preclude him from driving a charabanc on his day off.

[JoeDuffy]

Full image of the back. The postcard isn't mine, it's from someone I've started following on Twitter/X
https://x.com/PaulSuttonKing/status/1817826627088228392
I do agree it says driver. Thanks to you lot, the main part of the mystery has been solved.

[frian]

I have a postcard of the Black Bull at Bolton le Sands (postmarked 1907).  it says very clearly who the landlord was at that time - and it was not R B Lees.
Ian

[rosie99]

On your original post you mention Sept 1902.  Has this been taken from the writing on the back of the picture image that you have posted as I think it could say Bgt 02 possibly meaning bought 02 and perhaps relates to when this pc was purchased, perhaps 2002

[JoeDuffy]

It seems Richard Lee didn't take it over until 1908/09 so the 02 must refer to something else

[frian]

Hi - the date 1907 is the date of the postmark, so the photo was taken any time in the few years before that.
Ian

[ShaunJ]

Hi - the date 1902 is the date of the postmark, so the photo was taken that year or probably only a year or two before that.

What postmark? There's no stamp, no address.