Johnson's Pedestrian Hobbyhorse Riding School, the Strand, Westminster, London Finish:Float frame Plan of the Church of

Plan of the Church of St Peter upon Cornhill

The man carries a large basket on his head

View of Holland House

Bishopsgate

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Johnson's Pedestrian Hobbyhorse Riding School, the Strand, Westminster, London Finish:Float frame Plan of the Church ofInterior 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