Johnson's Pedestrian Hobbyhorse Riding School, the Strand, Westminster, London Blackheath a look that was achieved

a look that was achieved by wearing lots of layers of petticoats and crinolines

'Too young to be married'

Pritty Pins

Ajunta (sic)'

View of Greenwich

Johnson's Pedestrian Hobbyhorse Riding School, the Strand, Westminster, London Blackheath a look that was achievedInterior 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