ABSTRACT
“The major development in urban transport in the Victorian Age was not the introduction of mechanical traction but the greater supplementation of human by animal power”. This chapter describes the discipline of building history to create a methodology that enables identification of the infrastructure in towns and cities of horse-powered transport of the nineteenth century; that is, the amount, its nature, and what remains. To demonstrate the application of comprehensive ‘needs’ approach for the identification of horse transport’s built infrastructure, a discrete geographical area was selected for a case study of horse transport buildings. Collection of data from over the study period has enabled an examination of the changes of in distribution of horse transport buildings within the urban area over time. The applied method enabled a large amount of previously unexamined primary source information to be amalgamated and analysed to indicate characteristics of the horse transport infrastructure for the urban area of Worksop, Nottinghamshire, particularly about 1910–1915.
