Johnson's Pedestrian Hobbyhorse Riding School, the Strand, Westminster, London Finish:Float frame timber merchant

timber merchant

Dulwich College

probably a reference to legal text books or to his own writings on the law

Bishopsgate

Johnson's Pedestrian Hobbyhorse Riding School, the Strand, Westminster, London Finish:Float frame timber merchantInterior view of Johnson's Pedestrian Hobbyhorse Riding School in the Strand, Westminster, London, 1819. Fashionably dressed men riding hobby horses at a riding school at 337 Strand, London. The 'Hobby Horse' or 'Dandy Horse' was the forerunner of the bicycle and was invented by Baron von Drais in France in 1817. It was introduced the following year to England by Denis Johnson, a coachmaker of Long Acre London, who described it as a 'Pedestrian