Johnson's Pedestrian Hobbyhorse Riding School, the Strand, Westminster, London Blackheath holding several rabbit skins under

holding several rabbit skins under either arm

Bird's-eye view of the Royal Exchange

View of Greenwich

looking north

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

Johnson's Pedestrian Hobbyhorse Riding School, the Strand, Westminster, London Blackheath holding several rabbit skins underInterior 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