West Street Durban 1900: horse-drawn trams and rickshaws

Central West Street Durban in 1900: double-decker horse-drawn
trams and rickshaws - the latter without decorative tourist trappings. How much more peaceful West Street seems before the invention of the infernal internal combustion engine.
The clock tower of the first City Hall, later the Post Office, can be seen in the left background.

Souvenir Saturday: West Street Durban at the turn of the century

Central West St, Durban, ca 1893 -1902;
double-decker horse-drawn trams (note the tracks) and rickshas - no motorised vehicles. Rickshas came into use in Durban in 1893, electric trams in 1902. On the left the clock tower of the Town Hall built in 1885, now the Post Office, can be seen. The new City Hall was built in 1910.