tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24066635.post3474746413771154326..comments2024-02-29T06:03:35.483-05:00Comments on Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections: London changes through the yearsJDRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06471656063812824731noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24066635.post-90502570772774031032011-01-31T11:56:26.870-05:002011-01-31T11:56:26.870-05:00Thank you for sharing these wonderful old films. I...Thank you for sharing these wonderful old films. I was amazed at how busy the rush hour traffic was in 1903. I noticed that there were very few women in the footage filmed in the City - a few on top of the omnibuses but none as pedestrians. The 1913 "riot" seemed incredibly peaceful and decorous by today's standards. There were still quite a few horse drawn vehicles on London BridgeCarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04977450933277241692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24066635.post-70164066132578504952011-01-31T01:25:02.674-05:002011-01-31T01:25:02.674-05:00Two things I notice about 1903: pedestrians interm...Two things I notice about 1903: pedestrians intermingled with carriages and wagons as part of the normal traffic. Clearly the slower pace of horse-drawn vehicles posed less of a danger to those on foot than motorized vehicles would a mere ten years later. It is utterly amazing that only ten years brought such a transformation from the horse-drawn carriage to the horseless carriage. This must haveAylarjahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07440947193830946558noreply@blogger.com