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With the High Street to the left, and two little girls (right) posing with all the assurance of modern models outside the villa adjoining Dale's ornamental shop entrance, a cart stands at the beginning

Before this sandstone bridge was built in 1686, horses and carts crossed the Eden at the 'wath' or ford, which was the longest over the river, hence the name Langwathby.

Trading schooners are beached, waiting for their cargo to be taken ashore by horse and cart.

Meanwhile horses, carts, children and dogs have given way to the motor car, while a higher fence has appeared around the Dean's Court fields.

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.

Here we see the 19th-century cottages of the village; the older part is well inland, and the newer development stretches from the old centre towards the sea.

Note the heavily laden horse and cart outside the garage (centre).

Situated on the Clyde, opposite the mouth of the River Cart, Clydebank was little more than farmland until 1871–72, when J & G Thomson began the construction of a shipyard.

Here are a group of young citizens of Burwash with rural baby carts (hardly prams) photographed over a century ago.

Here we see an ice cream vendor with 'stop me' written on the side of his cart. This practice gave rise to that familiar 'stop me and buy one' saying, that was so popular at one time.

As recently as the early 1900s, it could still only carry horses - not carts.

The theatres Royal and Philharmonic (left) flank the Victoria Tea Company, here perhaps taking delivery from the horse-drawn cart outside.

Here we see the cobbled Market Square at a time when early charabancs, like that on the left of the photograph, still vied with horses and carts – one is clattering by in the centre background under the

Boys watch the photographer, a woman goes shopping and a delivery is made by horse and cart.

At the time when this picture was taken, horses and carts like that in the centre of the photograph were still a common sight outside the Bay Hotel, overlooking the sea front.

This scattered village is situated in the heart of the Weald. It is an old centre with a 15th-century church, which has many fine treasures. Weatherboarded cottages surround the tree-lined green.

On the left is the City Luncheon Bar, and passing in the foreground carriers' carts, two owned by Henry Draper and another by the railway.

The wheeled cart in the centre of the picture bears the crest of the Royal Mail.

The unfortunate earl was taken prisoner and carted off to his own castle at Pontefract, where he was beheaded.

In the street the modest cart of the 'People's Caterers' is offering 'machine-made bread'. At the time mechanisation was the way to the future and constituted a distinct trading advantage.

Horse-drawn carts stopped to collect sacks of flour to transport to Cookson's bakery and other places. Part of this mill's old machinery was transferred to the windmill at Wrea Green.

Note the two farm carts with shafts designed for sturdy horses to the right of the yeoman farmer's dwelling.

The parish church of St Mark is in the main part of the village, near the Methodist Chapel, the primary school and the village shop.

Brewing was also an important industry in the town: a brewer's cart is standing outside a public house on the left.