An ordinary bike, aka penny-farthing, is the latest and oldest object on display on the suspended Velodrome. What’s extraordinary is that the bicycle, called ‘The Spider’, was built in Glasgow by the Howe Machine Company of Bridgeton, about 1885.
An ordinary bike, aka penny-farthing, is the latest and oldest object on display on the suspended Velodrome. What’s extraordinary is that the bicycle, called ‘The Spider’, was built in Glasgow by the Howe Machine Company of Bridgeton, about 1885.
Riverside Museum
100 Pointhouse Place, Glasgow, G3 8RS
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Thu 28 Feb 10:00- 17:00
free