Johnson's Pedestrian Hobbyhorse Riding School, the Strand, Westminster, London Blackheath horse and cart

horse and cart

dressed in his uniform and carrying a staff

Rocky outcrop on the beach at Blue Anchor Bay

London during the Reform Banquet

Johnson's Pedestrian Hobbyhorse Riding School, the Strand, Westminster, London Blackheath horse and cartInterior view of Johnson's Pedestrian Hobbyhorse Riding School in the Strand, Westminster, London, 1819. Fashionably dressed men riding hobby horses at a riding school at 337 Strand, London. The 'Hobby Horse' or 'Dandy Horse' was the forerunner of the bicycle and was invented by Baron von Drais in France in 1817. It was introduced the following year to England by Denis Johnson, a coachmaker of Long Acre London, who described it as a 'Pedestrian