 80 was accommodating more than twenty commercial concerns, among them the Floyd Cab Company, a firm of 'jobmasters', who may well have utilised the yard which had stood at the rear of the property since at least the 1730s for storing their vehicles and stabling their horses.The centre of London was as choked by traffic in the Victorian era as it is today, although generally speaking the streets were then much narrower.Cabbies were expected to manoeuvre their horse-drawn vehicles through these congested thoroughfares at high speed.