Transport one hundred years ago was very different from
transport today.
The petrol engine was a new invention but only rich
people could afford cars. In cities, people used trams or walked. Horse drawn
carts were used to move goods.
Roads were not very good so people used
trains to travel long distances. Ferries were still used to carry people across
water.
There are four photographs in this section.
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| Source 1A is a photograph
of Glasgow Bridge from Jamaica Street, taken in 1914.
Click to enlarge
the image, then answer the following questions.
Questions
- How many different methods of transport can you see?
- How
were the vehicles you see powered?
- What problems do you think
people had travelling in Glasgow?
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| Source 1B is a photograph
of Inverness station platform, taken about 1906.
Click to enlarge the
image, then answer the following questions.
Questions
- Find two pieces of evidence to show that large numbers of people travelled
by train.
- Study the railway carriages carefully. How are they
different from modern railway carriages? How would this make travelling by train
different from travelling by train today?
- A hundred years ago,
people put on their best clothes to travel. What evidence can you see in the photograph
to show this?
- Can you find out how trains were powered at this
time?
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| Source 1C is a photograph
of the Paddle Steamer Gael, taken about 1909.
Click to enlarge the
image, then answer the following questions.
Questions
- What evidence is there that large numbers of people travelled by ferry?
- How
is the ferry powered?
- What problems do you think that might cause
passengers?
- Can you tell whether these people have put on their
best clothes to travel?
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| Source 1D is a photograph
of a Motor car in front of Kershill House, taken about 1910.
Click
to enlarge the image, then answer the following questions.
Questions
- How many people could travel in this car?
- What evidence
is there that rich people owned this car?
- How was the car powered?
- What
advantages were there to travelling by car?
- How comfortable do
you think it would be to travel in this car?
- What sort of clothes
would people wear to travel in this car?
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