Bicycle Collection

Social worker
People You See. Social worker. From Teddy Bear (12 September 1964)

The Postwoman
People You See: The Postwoman. From Teddy Bear (12 October 1968)

Elephant on a bicycle

Bicycle shop
People You See. From Teddy Bear (date unknown)

Newspaper Girl
People You See: The Newspaper Girl. From Teddy Bear (27 June 1964)

Pixie Pip

Young men on Portland Road, London, 1957
Two young men amuse themselves on Portland Road, London, 1957. One chucks a football in the air, while the other balances a bicycle frame with one wheel on his shoulder. Date: 1957

Hercules bicycles Coronation advertisement
Advertisement for Hercules Bicycles, founded in 1910 in Birmingham, showing the street of a typical British town decorated with flags, swags and bunting for the 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

Poster Advertising Clement Bicycles and Cars circa 1902

Street scene. Spot the mistakes puzzle

Street scene in Panaji, Goa, India
Street scene with traffic in Panaji, the capital of Goa, India. Date: 1992

Town Mouse and Country Mouse. From Once Upon a Time 9

Street scene in Nowa Huta, Krakow, Poland
A street scene in Nowa Huta, a district of Krakow, Poland, with children playing on a bomb site. Date: 1959

Couple on bicycles
Couple out for a bicycle ride in the country. Date: 1903

Boys pushing a car, Princedale Road, Kensington, London
A group of boys giving a car a push start in Princedale Road, North Kensington, London. Date: 1957

Street scene in Tokyo, Japan
A busy street scene in Tokyo, Japan, with people and traffic. Date: 1986

Two Eton schoolboys crossing the road
Two Eton schoolboys in their distinctive tailcoat uniform cross the road in Thames Street, Windsor, Berkshire

Granpop Thinks more Juice is Required by Lawson Wood
Granpop, the orang utan character created by Lawson Wood enjoys a ride in a homemade, ramshackle carriage pulled by a sweltering little monkey on a bicycle

Advertisement for Gladiator Cycles
A French advertisement for Gladiator Cycles, showing a cyclist keeping up with a car on a high Alpine lane. circa 1910s

Carpenters saw a large log
A team of carpenters use a long two-person saw to split a large trunk log into planks. Watercolour Painting by Malcolm Greensmith Date: circa 1980

Tramway car and motor bicycle with side-car

Sawing a large plank
Two carpenters use a large upright saw to split a large wooden plank. A colleague is signalling a break with the arrival of a cup of tea, whilst two boys look on with keen interest

Latin dancing - Street Tango, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The male dancer is Paul Pellicoro

Henley Royal Regatta, Henley-on-Thames, South Oxfordshire. Two policemen and a cyclist looking across the river. 1995

Busy road during British advance, Western Front, WW1
A busy scene on the road during the British advance on the Western Front during World War One. circa 1916

Five young men on their bicycles, each one with his hand on the next mans shoulder. A photograph from The Netherlands. 1914

Feathers Hotel, Ludlow, Shropshire
Street scene with the Jacobean-style Feathers Hotel in Ludlow, Shropshire, dating back to the 17th century

View of The Stade, Folkestone Harbour, Kent

Group of colonials with Indian servant

Young woman with bicycle and hockey stick
A young woman with a bicycle and a hockey stick, standing in front of a window

Graf Zeppelin airship hovering above the ground
The German Graf Zeppelin airship hovering above the ground, with a crowd of people below it

Farming with steam-powered tractor
People farming with the aid of a steam-powered tractor

Tushielaw Hotel, Ettrick, Scotland
Scene outside the Tushielaw Hotel, Ettrick, Scotland

Women looking in a shop window. circa 1940s

Woman with a bicycle
A smiling woman in a garden with a bicycle

Russian poster advertising bicycles
Russian poster advertising famous bicycles: Humber, Flyte and Derby. A devil figure rides his bicycle to the edge of a high rock, while a stag jumps off in fright!

Men at the London Docks
Two middle aged men at the London Docks -- the one on the left is holding a small clipboard, while the one on the right is relaxing on a bicycle. Date: 1959

Family on a bicycle in Goa, India
An entire family -- father, mother and two children -- travelling on a bicycle in Calangute, Goa, India. A carpet shop can be seen on the left. Date: 1992

Scene in Portobello Road, London
A scene at a market stall in Portobello Road, West London, where two men inspect the spokes of a bicycle wheel. One of the men holds the detached bicycle tyre in his hand. Date: 1954

Boys on the Hyde Park Estate, Sheffield
A group of five boys, one on a bicycle, behind some netting in a sports area of the Hyde Park Estate in Sheffield, Yorkshire. Date: 1964

Bicycles and chalk marks, Portland Road
Boys playing an interesting game with bicycles and chalk marks in the roadway in Portland Road, North Kensington, London. (1 of 2) Date: 1957

Street scene in Nafplion, Peloponnese, Greece
A street scene in Nafplion, a seaport town in the Peloponnese in Greece. In the foreground two women are carrying their shopping in open weave plastic bags. Date: 1965

View of the Radcliffe Camera, Oxford
A view of the Radcliffe Camera, Oxford, seen through an arched doorway from the Bodleian Library, with students chatting in the street. Date: 1958

Girls skipping in Southam Street, London
Girls skipping in Southam Street, North Kensington, London, with a bicycle wheel visible in the foreground. The distinctive terraced Georgian houses of Southam Street can be seen in the background

Poster advertising Hercules bicycles
Poster advertising the Hercules bicycle. A tired couple out hiking, and miles from anywhere, wish they had a bicycle to take them home

Raleigh bicycle factory, Nottingham
A man in a clean white shirt working at machinery in the Raleigh bicycle factory, Nottingham

Boys with bikes in Addison Place
Two young boys with their bicycles in a shed in Addison Place, North Kensington, London. Date: 1956

Boy with a Wheel
A boy playing with a tyreless bicycle wheel on Southam Street, North Kensington, London. Date: 1959

Mitcham Fair 1930S
Workmen getting a carousel ready at Mitcham Fair, Surrey, England. Date: early 1930s

Rudges Cycles Poster
Poster advertising bicycles by Rudge and Whitworth of Nottingham, England showing a young lady from around 1940 perched on one of their models. Date: c.1940

Advertisement - Bicycles
A poster advertising Griffon Cycles, Motos and Tricars Date: circa 1910

Poster advertising Wearwell cycles. Date: early 20th century

Poster advertising Terrot bicycles. The company was founded by Charles Terrot in Dijon in 1887. A young couple are depicted on their bicycles, enjoying a healthy cycling holiday

Brother and Sister with their cycles
A brother and sister pose in their attractive back garden with their cycles. The boy sits on a tricycle and the girl stand propped up against her bicycle. Date: circa 1900

My Birthday Month -- April
Calendar design for My Birthday Month -- April. Showing a little boy riding his bicycle, while his two siblings walk along the pavement in the background. 1912

Four Edwardian cyclists in the countryside, two men and two women, relaxing by the side of a stream. early 20th century

Riders on penny farthing bicycles, riding round a track. late 19th century

Poster design for Deuxieme Salon du Cycle, an annual cycle show which still takes place in Paris. Showing two women riding bicycles. 1897

Poster design for Spiga tyres, marketed by Spiga-Moncalieri of Turin, Italy. Showing a cyclist with a burst tyre, wishing he had a Spiga to replace it with. 1924

Poster design for Gladiator Cycles (bicycles and motor cycles). Showing a man and a woman on their bicycles, with a Napoleon figure chasing after them on foot. 1895

Early convertible on a car ferry
An early convertible car on a car ferry alongsode a large cart/wagon and a couple of lads with a bicycle. Date: 1910s

Stopping for a chat at the roadside - Somerset
A man hops off his bicycle to have a chat to a passing motorist in a fine open-top car close to Taunton, Somerset. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts Date: 1922

Motorcycle Football
A daily game of motorcycle football being played at Pangbourne, Berkshire Date: 1930s

A German Bicycle Boat
A bicycle boat on a street in Germany. Date: early 1930s

Cycling Couple / 167
A couple cycle through the country Date: 1930

Social / Hong Kong 1987
A busy street scene at North Point, Hong Kong Date: 1987

Cycling Parts 1957
Two boys inspect the spokes of a bicycle wheel on the street outside in the spare parts section of a bicycle shop on Portobello Road, London. Date: 1957

Teds / 1956 North London
Teddy Boys in North Kensington, London, hanging out in the street Date: 1956

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