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Description: | George Speakman was born in West Ham in 1913. He has seen many changes in his lifetime, including the decline of horse transport.
When motor vehicles were introduced, they quickly replaced horses in London. Whatever the later environmental implications of petrol motors, they were initially seen as a cleaner alternative.
In 1900, about 50,000 horses were in use in London. This included the animals used to pull carriages, omnibuses and delivery carts. They were depositing an estimated 1,000 tonnes of dung on the streets each day.
George Speakman worked for the National Dairy Council. Traditionally, dairy deliveries were made by horse and cart, and here George reflects on the disappearance of horsepower. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Environment Transport | Temporal: | 1950-1959 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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