When I was a very young child, my father was a cabinet maker and sometimes general builder. My family, like many of the time was quite poor. People still recovering from the Second World War. We still had food rations. My father used a cart to haul his tools and materials. It had big wheels like the horse drawn but minus the horse. In Liverpool, there are many steep hills and I would feel so sad watching my father pushing his heavy cart uphill. On the days he had more money he would hire a cart with a horse. Every neighborhood had these stables. They were ‘fun days’ riding along with my father on a horse drawn cart. I will never forget the steep hills of Liverpool, which is the European Capital of Culture for 2008.

@zichi: Touching story … I guess back then the world was much more physical in a way. Manual labor and muscles where much more in demand compared to today - where machines do the heavy lifting.

Did you see the opening concert for Liverpool 2008? Search YouTube and you find some clips …