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Victoria Square was originally called Commercial Place, and hackney cabs operated from stands here.

Horse-drawn cabs were fairly expensive.

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

The railed enclosure with the lamp post has gone, but the 1885 drinking fountain and canopy, to the right of the 'growler' cab, remain, or rather were reinstated in 1979.

Cab fares in 1906 were 1s a mile for 1-2 persons, 1s 6d per mile for 3-5 persons, and fare and a half between midnight and 6.00am.

Hansom cabs line up in King's Parade, outside the elegant classically designed Senate House to the right.

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

London Bridge is thronged with cabs, carriers, brewers' drays, hay wagons, omnibuses and carriages.

Here the broad thoroughfare is thronged with carts, cabs and omnibuses.

Most of the shops around the square have changed in the past ten years, including the thatched greengrocer's shop to the left of the Butter Cross, now a cab company and insurance office.

Horses are very prominent in our photograph: one brave horse cab is going through the waves, and horses from the 'vans' (bathing machines) are coming ashore.

The builder, Joseph Aloysius Hansom, had earlier in 1836 patented the new safety cab bearing his name.

Horse-drawn ambulances, taxi cabs, flat wagons, and even a horse bus were used to convey the patients down to the new Royal Infirmary on Oxford Road.

Horse-drawn ambulances, taxi cabs, flat wagons, and even a horse bus were used to convey the patients down to the new Royal Infirmary on Oxford Road.

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

However, the cabs and carts are still relying on horse-power.

As late as the 1940s, there was only one bus, a few motor taxis and some horse-drawn cabs on the island.

The Transporter (or more correctly 'transbordeur') Bridge was a meccano- like structure below which moved a suspended cab.

Parts of the original Norman church can still be seen, though much of the present cathedral dates from the 13th to the 16th centuries.

Hansom cabs line up on Senate House Hill, alongside the elegant classically styled Senate House, the 'Parliament' building for the University.

Fore Street and the triangular medieval market place are the heart of the town: here we see the south side, behind the Market House's stand of horse-drawn cabs.

Just opposite are the offices of the Wharfedale Moor Cab Company, now demolished.

Hansom cabs await customers.

The builder, Joseph Aloysius Hansom, had in 1836 patented the new safety cab bearing his name.