Much prefer late Victorian London if you do not mind the horse poop.
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The number of horses in the street is amazing. I looked at the pictures and didn’t a single “horseless carriage”, although in 1890 those did look a lot like carriages, so it would be easy to miss. I also don’t see any electric street trolleys, at least in this set of pictures, although they were in operation in at least some places but the 1890’s.
London did have the subway system later to be called The Underground.
There are youtube videos of vintage films of London and NYC and some of Germany and Russia of that era with horse drawn carriages, freight wagons etc. and the streets are remarkable clear of horse apples. Seems they had these people called street sweepers that worked through out the day actually using brooms instead of merely leaning on them. Noticable is the total absence of paper debris.
And yes there were slums...the poor have always been with us and ever will be.