randyrippley
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I spent a few hours in Blackpool yesterday and noticed that another piece of transport history seems to be going extinct with almost no-one noticing.
Nearly all the old traditional wooden-bodied horse taxis have gone, replaced by what are best described as Disneyfied fairy princess "canary cage" iron/steel bodied designs. Out of all the horse cabs I saw, only one was traditionally styled. The rest (I would guess at 30) were all "fairy princesses".
I guess it's no surprise - given the choice families are going to choose something that looks like it's come out of Cinderella or some other film, and I guess the new ones are cheaper to maintain, but it does seem unfortunate that something else is being lost with no awareness that it's happening
Nearly all the old traditional wooden-bodied horse taxis have gone, replaced by what are best described as Disneyfied fairy princess "canary cage" iron/steel bodied designs. Out of all the horse cabs I saw, only one was traditionally styled. The rest (I would guess at 30) were all "fairy princesses".
I guess it's no surprise - given the choice families are going to choose something that looks like it's come out of Cinderella or some other film, and I guess the new ones are cheaper to maintain, but it does seem unfortunate that something else is being lost with no awareness that it's happening
