Publications
From Hansom Cabs to Tanks, by Jane Joslin, published December 2014 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 21 no. 4, article, pp.163-165) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508854]
Preview:My father William Alfred HARDING was born just as the 19th Century was drawing to a close, into a family of Hansom cab proprietor/managers in London. The only pictures that I have seen of cab yards have been of galleried accommodation with families living above the stables and it would probably have been very crowded. The smells, sights and sounds of the horses and drivers within the yard where they lived and worked must have been noisy and ever penetrating as cabs worked both during the day and at night. Ormond Yard was almost opposite Great Ormond Street Hospital in Bloomsbury so would have been busy all the time.