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Transport - Hansom Cabs in Eagle Inn Close - Ref: WC1015
These two-wheeled carriages were called Hansom cabs after the designer, Joseph Hansom. The driver sat at the rear, above the compartment for the passengers (who could thus see where they were going).
Alexander Wilson performed an invaluable service to historians by devoting his time to taking photographs of the forms of transport which were popular in his own time. Hansom cabs were particularly popular in Dundee.
Eagle Inn Court is something of a mystery. There was (and still is) a public house in nearby Broughty Ferry, but no street directory of the period refers to a Close of that name, either there or in Dundee itself.