Originally Posted by
RomansFiveEight
Horses were the primary mode of transportation, including in urban areas, in those days (especially in Europe). You didn't want to do much sniffing!
In London, small boys were hired to essentially spend their days shoveling manure off of the streets.
Not so much the smell of manure, but the copious puddles of urine on a hot summer day. I laughed at an old photograph of life on a city street, before the automobile won out as the primary means of transportation in the US.
In the photograph, was a man with a very disdained look on his face as he walked past several horse drawn carts with large puddles of urine on the ground, and what appears to be on a hot summer day.