I'm only 48 and I remember tradesmen using horsedrawn vehicles and cobbled streets with curbs at the right height for people to step out of carriages rather than cars. I can remember our neighbours turning out to watch our bath being delivered as most people still used a tin bath which was hung on the back of the door when not in use. I can remember a milking parlour just a few streets away (this was in Bethnal Green just 15 minutes walk from the heart of the City) and the cows being led in down Bethnal Green Road from where they were grazed on Wanstead Flats. The past is not as far away as people think.