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Description: | The penny farthing bicycle developed from the boneshaker bicycle around 1870. It was called 'penny farthing' because the difference in size between the front and back wheels was about the same as the difference between the diameters of the old penny and farthing coins. These bicycles were used by sportsmen for racing. This bicycle was given to the museum by William Olliff. In the 1880s he ran a bicycle shop in Grainger Street, Newcastle, which was said to be the largest in the country. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | living in the North East leisure | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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