Post by acnedriver on May 15, 2023 5:01:19 GMT
ANYONE passing by may have looked twice when a wooden cab shelter, hoisted by a crane out of Bradford’s Exchange Station, was taken off on the back of a lorry.
The little shelter had been at the station for nearly 100 years when, in 1973, it was gifted to the National Tramway Museum.
Now the restoration of the rare surviving Victorian horse cabmen’s shelter has been completed at the museum, in Crich, Derbyshire, thanks to funding from an Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant, The Pilgrim Trust and the Association for Industrial Archaeology.
Cabmen’s shelters were built in Britain from the early 1870s - the Exchange Station shelter was the first in Bradford - to provide drivers of hackney carriages and hansom cabs with somewhere warm and dry to wait while they waited for passenger fares.
There was also space for horses in the shelters, which could be warmed during the winter months. The RSPCA supported the Bradford shelters as part of its mission to improve the welfare of working horses. The charity gave the cab drivers a supply of water for the horses and somewhere to dry horse rugs.
www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/23518569.national-tramway-museum-restores-cab-shelter-bradford-station/
The little shelter had been at the station for nearly 100 years when, in 1973, it was gifted to the National Tramway Museum.
Now the restoration of the rare surviving Victorian horse cabmen’s shelter has been completed at the museum, in Crich, Derbyshire, thanks to funding from an Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant, The Pilgrim Trust and the Association for Industrial Archaeology.
Cabmen’s shelters were built in Britain from the early 1870s - the Exchange Station shelter was the first in Bradford - to provide drivers of hackney carriages and hansom cabs with somewhere warm and dry to wait while they waited for passenger fares.
There was also space for horses in the shelters, which could be warmed during the winter months. The RSPCA supported the Bradford shelters as part of its mission to improve the welfare of working horses. The charity gave the cab drivers a supply of water for the horses and somewhere to dry horse rugs.
www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/23518569.national-tramway-museum-restores-cab-shelter-bradford-station/