pennyfarthing

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Sydney University - surrounding grounds

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

  • beachcomber australia said:
    Check out the penny-farthing !
  • beachcomber australia said:
    I am having trouble working out where this private(?) garden was, and consequently who those people are. Across Parramatta Road in Glebe? James Barnet lived somewhere there - it looks a bit like him but old ... St John's College on right (see note). Royal Prince Albert Hospital on left, with St Andrew's College behind. Confused !
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Strong suspicion that this is James Barnet (1827-1904) and family at home in 'Braeside', Forest Lodge, Glebe. "Barnet was born in Scotland but lived all his Australian years in Glebe (Derwent Street in 1865) and Forest Lodge (Braeside, now demolished – where Officeworks now stands on the corner of Parramatta Road and Ross Street)." glebewalks.com.au/?tb_walk_more_info=james-barnet-1827-1904 As far as I can make out, this location fits. His wife Amy (seated?) died in 1890, so this photo is before then. Barnet would have been 63 in 1890. He had four daughters and three sons - not sure which daughter and/or sons and grandchildren those are - some are referred to at the foot of his ADB biography - adb.anu.edu.au/biography/barnet-james-johnstone-2939
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Amy Barnet died on 30/11/1889 "in her 60th year" according to - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13751787?searchTerm=br... So photo before 1889 ?
  • beachcomber australia said:
    I think that could be Donald McKay Barnet (b. 1869) in his late teens on the penny-farthing. He was a student at St Andrew's College (in the background) according to the HHT link above.

Penny Farthing

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Stuart said:
    How does one dismount from a penny-farthing bicycle?!! Stuart.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Gymnastically! Or at least quickly...
  • hockadilly said:
    My grandfather (b. 1873) once rode on a penny farthing when he was a youngster - he dismounted head first, at speed. He was still laughing about it aged 92.
  • Jim Griffin said:
    They do look difficult to ride.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    So no harm done to his sense of humour then, hockadilly!

Going to the bicycle tournament (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Silvester Humaj said:
    Penny farthing
  • swanq said:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny-farthing "About 1870, English inventor James Starley, described as the father of the bicycle industry, and others began producing bicycles based on the French boneshaker but with front wheels of increasing size, because larger front wheels, up to 1.5 m (60 in) in diameter, enabled higher speeds on bicycles limited to direct drive. In 1878, Albert Pope began manufacturing the Columbia bicycle outside of Boston, starting their two-decade heyday in America. Although the trend was short-lived, the penny-farthing became a symbol of the late Victorian era. Its popularity also coincided with the birth of cycling as a sport."