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Cabs await their next customers. To take a cab from here to St Anne's Square in Manchester cost 9d per mile for one or two people, and a 1s a mile for three or four people.

It cost one penny to travel the length of New Street by horse-drawn omnibus, while a Hansom cab cost somewhat more.

This was one of the principal cab ranks in Manchester, and licensing, fares and conditions were regulated by the local authority.

Note the cabs and brakes alongside the Scott Monument. During the summer, excursions could be taken from here to the Forth Bridge and Queensferry and also to Roslin.

Cabs await their next fares. Fares were set by the local authority: one shilling for the first mile and 6d for each additional half mile.

Cabs await their next fares. Fares were set by the local authority: one shilling for the first mile and 6d for each additional half mile.

It cost one penny to travel the length of New Street by horse-drawn omnibus, while a Hansom cab cost somewhat more.

The cabs in the picture include the famous hansom cab, designed and built by Charles Hansom of Manchester.

Horse-drawn cabs wait for custom outside the imposing neo-Classical Shire Hall, built 1834-5 by Charles Day of Bristol, and Henry Rowe, Worcester's own city architect.

Here we see horse-drawn cabs waiting for passengers in the Square.

A hansom cab waits for a fare outside the entrance to Christ's College.

Horse-drawn cabs were fairly expensive. The fare per mile for 1-2 persons was 1s, for 3-4 persons, 1s 6d, and each additional half-hour was 1s. Each article of luggage carried on the outside cost 2d.

The gazebo was provided as a shelter for the horse-drawn cab drivers, who are plying for business alongside.

London Bridge is thronged with cabs, carriers, brewers’ drays, hay wagons, omnibuses and carriages. A dense procession of top-hatted gentlemen hurry along the pavement to their city offices.

Behind rises the 303-foot spire of the Roman Catholic St Walburge's Church, which was completed in 1866 to a design by Joseph Hansom, inventor of the Hansom cab.

A tractor, without a cab for the driver, hauls its trailer through the centre of the village. The houses are mostly thatched and built of stone.

In the first half of the century this roundabout was filled with hansom cabs, and later from 1904 by the rattle of trams.

A motorised bus waits for shoppers in Station Square alongside the horse-drawn cabs.

A hansom cab waits for a fare outside the entrance to Christ's College in 1908.

The cab rank and shelter have, of course, gone; further along to the right is now the grossly porticoed entrance to the Angel Place Shopping Centre.

However, the cabs and carts are still relying on horse-power. Note the complexity of building styles along the street line – the Victorians had no concern for harmony or for what was appropriate.

Horse-drawn cabs were fairly expensive. The fare per mile for 1-2 persons was 1s, for 3-4 persons, 1s 6d, and each additional half-hour was 1s.

The gazebo was provided as a shelter for the horse-drawn cab drivers, who are plying for business alongside. Behind the ornate Albert Clock is the prestigious Imperial Hotel.

A view along St Stephen's Green North, showing hansom cabs and the famous Shelbourne Hotel when it was just thirty years old.