what purpose do cobbles serve?(apart from looking historical) were all streets once cobbled or just some of them?
2007-04-01 09:48:57 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
Most streets were that way originally. Some areas are preserved for historic reasons; some just never got replaced
2007-04-01 09:51:24 · answer #1 · answered by wizjp 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Most streets were just dirt but with the towns getting larger and more traffic (horses and carts) they needed to find a way to make the streets more user friendly. Hence cobbles. Only the main streets, in town, were cobbled to start with, then this spread to the more prosperous areas of the town where the well to do lived. They didn't want their clothes and shoes covered by mud. Some towns still keep certain street cobbled, especially in the older sections, or pedestrian areas to keep the historical look.
2007-04-01 10:05:49 · answer #2 · answered by ELIZABETH M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the busy ones were cobbled so as to allow commerce easier access in and out of town and it attract lots of business than towns with mud roads prone to broken cart wheels or horses legs. some small towns even big cities still have some side streets and parks cobbled stoned ,for pedestrian traffic only and as you said for it's historical looks denoting them as one of the old modern place to do business.
2007-04-01 09:59:28 · answer #3 · answered by chucky5050 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Smooth stones were used before there were alternatives like asphalt. I, personally, really like the "Old World charm" look.--so much so that we tore out our existing concrete driveway last year and contracted with a company that brick-paved the entire driveway. It was very time consuming and these brickpavers had to be a lot easier to work with than assorted cobble stones.
2007-04-01 09:51:52 · answer #4 · answered by HoneyBunny 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They have not been tarmacked yet,As a child all the streets were cobbled,Hard work roller skating on them.They had steel wheels in those days.
2007-04-01 09:52:54 · answer #5 · answered by taxed till i die,and then some. 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
All "paved" streets were originally all cobbled streets because stones were all that was readily available along time ago!
2007-04-01 09:52:00 · answer #6 · answered by know da stuff 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Thats how streets were made in the 1800's..... in some country's..... they didn't have the asphalt making machines then.
2007-04-01 10:12:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, that's how they used to make streets before they invented pavement.
2007-04-01 09:51:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
To annoy the people that drive over them and to increase business for auto repair shops.
2007-04-01 09:56:33 · answer #9 · answered by SpringtimeChristine 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the streets were 'perfect' . but now nature has contracted and compressed the streets that now they are uneven.
2007-04-01 09:51:40 · answer #10 · answered by capitaineman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋