"Where are you going to my pretty maid?"
"I'm going a'cycling, sir" she said
"May I come with you my pretty maid?"
"Yes if you can keep up with me sir", she said.
Thank you to Ingrid, author of
Postmodern Pain for sending me this picture of a poster from the
Beamish Museum in County Durham. The museum tracks the industrial developments of the nineteenth century, this poster is for Beamish Motor and Cycle Works (pictured left by Rob Langham
@flickr)