Autograph note of Oliver Cromwell to a petition of the East India Company Product:Greetings card The 'Hobby Horse' or 'Dandy

The 'Hobby Horse' or 'Dandy Horse' was the forerunner of the bicycle and was invented by Baron von Drais in France in 1817

GW Beamish on a BSA 500cc motorbike

a record that was still his when he died in 1948

View showing the back of the Queen's Head Inn

A crowd assembled to watch two women fighting in the street

Autograph note of Oliver Cromwell to a petition of the East India Company Product:Greetings card The 'Hobby Horse' or 'DandyAutograph note of Oliver Cromwell to a petition of the East India Company, November 1657, (1893). An illustration from A Short History of the English People, by John Richard Green, illustrated edition, Volume III, Macmillan and Co, London, New York, 1893.