155 years ago

Today we are going back to 1847 when Jerome Nicolas Vlieland professor of languages and his wife returned to Dover England from Boulogne France.

Where did they come from ?
Had they visited Paris? even in those days just 1 and an half hour by train.
Been to Holland ? In the paper it says native of Holland.
Was it business or pleasure ?
So if your going to France this year on the ferry keep in mind that Jerome and his wife did the same 155 years before you.
We found this on the internet.

In 1790 sailing ships left Brighthelmston (later Brighton) on Tuesdays for Dieppe, returning on Saturdays. By 1817 the service had become daily, and the first steamer Majestic had started running from Brighton to le Havre. In 1824 the General Steam Navigation Company (GSN) began services from Newhaven to Dieppe with the Rapid and Magician. The railways reached Brighton in 1841 and Newhaven in 1826, and the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway (LBSC) was formed in 1847. They formed and financed the Brighton & Continental Steam Packet Company in 1847 because railway companies were not allowed to run steamer services at this this time. Services from Brighton (using vessels based at Shoreham) proved impractical and so the river at Newhaven was dredged to allow ferries to be berthed adjacent to a branch from the railway. The Brighton & Continental Steam Packet Company was deemed to be illegal by the courts and so other operators (GSN and then Maples & Morris) ran the initial services.