Up .... without a paddle anyone? (history lesson kiddos)

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In the late 1800's it was estimated that London would be swimming in horse manure by 1950. They probably would have had the automobile not been invented. Horses were used daily for everything. Deliveries, tromps around town, comings and goings. Horses produced a lot of manure too, and urine. They also didn't seem to last very long in service, and well there was the occasional dead horse just lying around on the street waiting to be hacked into smaller bits, easier for disposing of. How cruel... but then that was life back in that time. For all the romanticism we put towards a horse drawn carriage, it just simply wasn't like that in those days.