And tonight this seems to be even more true - hand carts, donkey carts, a boy on a bicycle carrying two large wooden crates, two boys on a moped carrying an extension ladder and metal piping.
The archetypal northern terraced houses on a steep hill look like they belong in cult gritty 70s movies like Get Carter or the famous Hovis Advert where the little boy pushes his bicycle up a big hill.
"Not many people do house calls, " she says on her way to a checkup on a 2-week old boy -- a visit she is making by car rather than bicycle because it's raining.