So he started to hire out the horses for students and teachers at the University to ride. To solve this problem, Hobson came up with a clever plan. Instead of allowing his customers to pick out their own steed Hobson would line the horses up and the customer had to pick the next one in line by the stable door or none at all, a system a lot like modern day taxi rank! In the newspaper of the time called The Spectator published an article in memory of Thomas Hobson describing his policy in the following way:.
A four year building project started in , the small artificial river flowed along both sides of Trumpington Street towards St. See if you can spot the conduit on its way to Peterhouse next time you walk along Trumpington Street outside the Fitzwilliam Museum. You can find the lyrics and the sound files for the song on this website here.
Although lots of people helped build the conduit, Hobson made sure it would run for years by providing plenty of money to the Hobson Conduit Trust to maintain its upkeep. The fountain that was originally found at the end of the conduit in Market Square was made of stone and had special carvings. The pieces are in the courtyard at The Cambridge Museum here.
The rebuilt conduit with a plaque with writing praising Thomas Hobson can now be seen at the junction of Lensfield Road and Trumpington Road, where it was moved in Workhouses were once commonplace in Britain, establishments designed to house people too poor to afford food or housing. However, it soon became an institute specifically for young girls and women, symbolising all that was corrupt with the University, which employed its own men to arrest local girls who were then locked up there in terrible conditions and suffered dreadful treatment.
There were a couple of famous cases of women resisting being incarcerated there. The Spinning House continued under similar conditions for more than years before it was finally pulled down in Hobson had many jobs.
His main jobs was as a courier, organising the carrying of letters on horse back between Cambridge and London. For this duty he kept about 40 horses for those carrying the messages to use. He kept them at an inn, which he also owned and ran. He soon realised that he owned more horses than his couriering business needed, so he decided to rent them out to those needing find a horse quickly.
His main customers were academics or undergraduates, most of whom lived in London. Not only did he rent our horses, but he also provided boots, bridles and whips, so that a man could immediately set out on his journey, and offered board to those who had used his horses, but had nowhere to stay in Cambridge. Hobson quickly realised that customers picked the fastest and strongest horses, which left a few horses tired and overworked, and others unused.
Hobson, therefore, devised a new system, in which he placed all his horses in a line, and offered the customer only the horse at the front, a bit like the taxi ranks of today! Known For. Show all Hide all Show by Jump to: Actor Producer Self. Hide Show Actor 57 credits. Lexi filming Nate. Show all 13 episodes. Sedrick Thomas. The Sherman's Showcase Dancers.
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