it must have been incredibly noisy and dirty. Note the dung on the ground. Someone would come and sweep it up later. Congestion moves along almost by social agreement since there appear to be few around to direct it. Nestles has been around a long time. 
People walking in and out are amazing. I feel for the horses. Many died on the street and some were terribly abused. Imagine drawing a double decker bus all day in that chaotic noise and movement. I imagine horses didn't live as long as they were intended because of that alone.
Almost at the very end as the horse drawn vehicles were going all in one direction a car comes against the flow all by itself. I consider that a portent of doom for that life and an omen of the future to come. Extraordinary thing, watching people from another world and era ... another world filled with smells, sounds and sights that might as well be on an alien world go about their business on streets I have walked with buildings around them that I have entered. Lovely thing, this.
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