They packed their worldly goods on the back of wheelbarrows or the local coal merchant’s horse-drawn cart, carefully binding the horses’ hooves with blankets so they wouldn’t make a sound as they clip-clopped in darkness from the misery of the slums to their new home. . https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17253153.how-stigma-of-slum-life-followed-poorest-families-for-generations/