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Description: | These are the Mare Street stables of the North Metropolitan Tramway, Hackney. Two stablemen stand in foreground between two long rows of horses. Various pieces of their equipment hang from the rafters. Horses were a major investment for the tram companies.
The horse-drawn tram could carry twice as many passengers as the horse bus could, since it was far easier to pull loads along tramlines than along poorly maintained roads. As a result lower fares could be charged. Cheap 'workman's' tickets of a penny a mile were introduced, and this revolutionised Londoners' living patterns. Poorer people could now afford to live away from where they worked for the first time. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Work | Temporal: | 1901 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Creator: | Photographer : Topical Press | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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