The plethora of bicycle shops around Spitalfields today is not a new phenomenon as confirmed by this 1896 catalogue for The Metropolitan Machinists’ Co, yet another of the lost trades of Bishopsgate, reproduced courtesy of the Bishopsgate Institute…
Read original: The Metropolitan Machinists’ Co | Spitalfields Life.
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Some of those prices were ‘beyond the reach’ in 1896.
Just shows that it was mainly a middle/upper class pastime back then.
Best wishes, Pete.
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