My mum came back to britain with her mother when the family farm went south in Basutoland in the 30s. They were the "poor cousins" to a wealthier family who had

My mum came back to britain with her mother when the family farm went south in Basutoland in the 30s. They were the "poor cousins" to a wealthier family who had an electric estate car. She used to mention to us how nice it was to ride in. And, if cars hadn't been invented, London would have drowned in horse shit, which was a massive problem at scale because of the volume of working horses, and the capacity to produce more shit. All those mews houses, now bijou $m residences used to house horses, then moved to cars, now people.