At a time before vans could be hired, how did you move household goods if you were moving house to another in the same locality? Well, you were able to borrow a cart to help you to complete the task, as I have depicted from memory in these paintings.

For those of you who have not heard the use of the verb “to flit” in this context, it’s a Northern English expression meaning: “to move house or leave one’s home, typically secretly so as to escape creditors or obligations”.  Not all removals were “flits” to escape creditors or obligations….