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Perils of Passage

  • Post published:August 29, 2023
  • Post category:Maritime History/Transport History/Urban History (Liverpool)
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Liverpool's waterfront must have been a fascinating place to visit in the first half of the Nineteenth Century. The growth of the dock estate in the period was prodigious, and…

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The Omnivorous Omnibus

  • Post published:September 13, 2022
  • Post category:Transport History/Urban History (Leeds)/Urban History (London)
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Travel by bus, or “omnibus”, could be a hair-raising business in the first half of the Nineteenth Century. Collisions occurred, axles broke, wheels came off, and horses fainted or bolted.…

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Banner image: detail from The Dancing Platform at Cremorne Gardens (Phoebus Levin, 1864), Museum of London.
This setting is featured in the chapter of Bring Him in Mad entitled ‘A Christmas Pantomime’.