HeyJaredIan Mansfield
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The world’s first drink-driving conviction may have happened in London (opens the original)
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Published on 10th September 2026 by Ian Mansfield in History On 10th September 1897, a London taxi driver became the first person in Britain — and quite possibly the world — to be convicted of drink-driving. At the time, there were no breathalysers, no legal blood-alcohol limit and the vehicle involved in the historic incident wasn’t even petrol-powered. It was an early type of electric taxi. The driver was 25-year-old George Smith, who was driving one of the new Bersey electric cabs. According
Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama: London’s forgotten property innovation (opens the original)
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Published on 11th August 2026 by Ian Mansfield in History A London estate agent was offering prospective buyers an early form of “virtual property tour” more than 160 years before online listings and digital walk-throughs became commonplace. Researchers have discovered that Brooks and Green, a high-end estate agency based in Old Bond Street, used an immersive visual technology known as a cosmorama during the 1840s and 1850s to promote sales of luxury homes and country estates to potential buyers
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