Broad Street
Knighton
around 1900
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The photograph below was probably
taken around 1900, and it shows Knighton's
most famous street scene. |
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Broad Street Knighton around 1900 |
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you look at the people in the photograph though there are some indications
that their lives were rather different
to ours. There are a lot of boys in the photograph so it was obviously not taken during school hours. Notice how strolling about in the road was a safe and normal thing to do before the motor car. Children were killed by horse-drawn traffic but this was very rare as horses are intelligent animals and will avoid running over people if they can. This picture shows us a glimpse of street life in the age of the horse. . |
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