Consternation comes in many forms.
A hundred and thirty years before those Household Cavalry horses caused mayhem through the streets of London in April, the capital had an equestrian crisis of a very different kind. Welcome to the Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894.
Back then, there were not the 300 or so police, ceremonial and military horses that you now see on the streets. There were nearer 300,000 to serve the six million Londoners.
Everything was shifted by horse. There were 11,000 hansom cabs and
