The beautful hearse was built about 1860 by John Marston of Birmingham. It would have been pulled by two or four black horses wearing plumes attached to their bridles. Their hooves would sometimes ...
On April 5, 1911, 400,000 people lined the rain-drenched sidewalks of New York as an empty, horse-drawn hearse crept from the dank, narrow streets of the Lower East Side toward the skyscrapers ...
Visitors to Grey Roots will see how funeral customs have changed since the Victorians. The centrepiece of the museum’s new ...