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Penny-farthing: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic A farthing (presumably from four thing) was a british coin worth one quarter of a penny.... [For more info, click on this link] was very large compared to the small farthing History of the farthing quick summary: www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pe/penny-farthing.htm   (1354 words)

Farthing (coin) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Farthings weighing 2.7 – 2.9 grams and of 20 millimetres diameter (which was to remain the standard size of the coin for the remainder of its existence) were minted in all years of Edward VII 's reign (1901–1910) except 1901. Henry IV issued farthings in both the "heavy" (pre 1412) and "light" (1412–13) coinages (20% lighter), although allowing for the prevalence of clipping it is quite difficult to distinguish between the two coinages at the size of the farthing. The George IV farthing was produced in two types, between 1821 and 1823, 1825, and 1826 it weighed 4.5 – 4.8 grams, with a diameter of 22 millimetres, and from 1826–1830 it weighed 4.6 – 4.9 grams with a diameter of 22 millimetres. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_the_farthing   (1354 words)

Penny Farthing Records - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page One Records stalwarts the Troggs were persuaded to join Penny Farthing but their label debut, Larry's attempt at the Beach Boys hit "Good Vibrations" with Reg Presley's vocals, did not produce sales. Penny Farthing Records was established by UK record producer Larry Page as a progression from his successful 1960s label Page One Records. Penny Farthing also recorded the Johnny Pearson Orchestra from the BBC's Top of the Pops and a promising early album by Raymond Froggatt. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Penny_Farthing_Records   (1354 words)

Encyclopedia article on Bicycle [EncycloZine] Bicycle sales in the United States boomed, largely in the form of the racing bicycles long used in such events as the hugely popular Tour de France. Bicycle brakes are either rim brakes, in which friction pads are compressed against the wheel rims, or hub brakes, which are contained within the wheel hubs. Bicycle manufacturing proved from the outset to be a training ground for other industries. encyclozine.com /Bicycle   (1354 words)

penny farthing history A Penny farthing is a bicycle that was developed between 1870 and 1878 which became a popular mode of transport till 1892 when the safety bicycle a style that we all now use came into production. At the height of the penny farthing boom there were over 500 companies producing these bicycles, but now they are only available from custom builders but originals are much sort after by veteran bicycle collectors. The penny farthing bicycle came in many sizes in order to fit small children and tall adults. www.inet-shibata.or.jp /~HSbicycles/HISTORY1.htm   (1354 words)

The Very Heart of English? Over and above this, there are dictionary-style entries for items which one would normally find in an encyclopedia but not usually [-13-] in dictionaries--people, places, inventions, and so on, such as Bertrand Russell, the Statue of Liberty, and the penny-farthing bicycle. www-writing.berkeley.edu /TESL-EJ/ej08/f1.html   (1354 words)

End to End Standing under the famous sign at Lands End in the poring rain had me bursting with anticipation, the ride to the other end of the country on my Penny Farthing was about to start. I headed down along the highstreet and located the Penny Farthing museum and its owner and race organiser Glynn Stockdale. Leaning the Bicycle against the wall of a cafe, a good deal of interest was shown by the owners as I told them of the Penny and of my trip, to the point of not having to pay for my coffee, most generous indeed. www.pennyfarthing.dabsol.co.uk /endtoend.htm   (1354 words)

Guardian Unlimited The Guardian Royals hail bus as style at its best The Routemaster bus was joined by a London taxi, a red telephone kiosk designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in 1935, a 2004 model of the Mini Cooper, first designed in 1959, a penny farthing bicycle (1871) and a Concorde nose cone (1969). About 400 guests from the world of British design made their way through the arch and across the inner quadrangle to the state apartments along a path flanked by floodlit British design icons. The way was lit by the latest version of cat's eyes, in red white and blue. www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,1357301,00.html   (1354 words)

Record Collecting Guide and Record Label Listings, Dragondiscs. Records that play longer than 3 minutes, may not be as dynamic and thus any wear will be heard more than the music (overpower the dynamics). Records that get less play are easily evident since they almost always look as though they were played only a few times and then packed away for decades. The record inside can cause an impression (a round shape in the face of the cover/sleeve) Many dealers or sellers feel that the artwork (the ink) has to be worn or starting to rub off, before there is any ring wear. www.btinternet.com /~davemct/gradings.html   (1354 words)

Florilegium urbanum - Tolls and customs - Customs charged on imports to and exports from London One penny [is payable on] a dozen of cordwain, one penny the dozen of " godelmynges ", one halfpenny the dozen of basan, one halfpenny the pound of silk, one farthing the pound of saffron. A boat rowed [with oars] within rowlocks that comes to Oystergate shall pay one penny; if a half-share in the boat belongs to a freeman of the city and the other half to a foreigner, the latter is to pay half of the custom – that is, a halfpenny. Every foreign butcher who sells meat in the market shall pay a penny for stallage on Sunday. www.trytel.com /~tristan/towns/florilegium/economy/ectol08.html   (1354 words)

pennyfarthingworldtour.com Penny Farthing Adventure. The journey around the world on a Penny Farthing will, I do realize, be rather a test in endurance for myself and the bicycle, but I have felt for quite a while, the long road ahead calling my name. This photo was taken in July 1999, and was the first time that I ever sat across a Penny Farthing. If you would like to meet me and say hello, talk of adventures and dreams then I can be found on the weekends selling Wheat Bags outside of the Jewelry shop at Greenwich Craft Market in London. www.pennyfarthingworldtour.com   (1354 words)

Rideable Bicycle Replicas , bought the negatives for eleven 1880 Penny Farthing antique catalogs from Clyde Nitz's widow after he passed away. Clyde was very active in the local and National Wheelmen Club and helped get political recognition for bicycles long before the cause became popular. One amazing revelation you will discover in these catalogs is just how expensive the bicycles back then were. www.hiwheel.com /pennyfarthing   (1354 words)

Rocking Pneumonia - History records was set up, but the only release to come out under their name had virtually nothing to do with them. After a string of hit records there was a lull in the Matchbox career, during which Gordon was guitar technician on the 'Buddy' musical for several years. Rocking Pneumonia were used to promote it, but it had no impact on either the rock'n'roll circuit or the pop scene. www.alleycats.fsnet.co.uk /histpneu.htm   (1354 words)

Week 52 : Around The Block On A Penny Farthing : : : bikeabout.beimers.com : : : We guarantee that the purchase of you penny farthing will grant hours of fun and enjoyment for you and your family, and very few injuries, of which are not the responsibility of the penny farthing or the store in which you purchased it. Her name was mentioned as the one to talk to for Penny Farthing info, and, quite by accident, we popped into her antique shop... Evandale once held the world record for the greatest number of free standing Penny Farthings in a row... australia.beimers.com /bike52.html   (1354 words)

Records International Catalogue September 2000 The two recorded here are his earliest surviving examples (many of his scores were lost in the Holocaust), dating from 1905 and 1908 (both in the classical four-movement form) with the former showing the influences of Zemlinskian late Romanticism and the latter a brittle lyricism which hints at neo-classicism. This 1978 recording is re-released as a tribute to one of the finest oboists of the 20th century and also offers much unknown repertoire, with Finzi's 12-minute rapturous piece being the longest but with almost all of the short works being in the serene, soothing English pastoral vein. A re-release of the 1989 Marco Polo recording of these trios, the first two of which have a Mendelssohnian verve (and a Beethovenian complexity in the second) and the third which is more personal, with hints of the Sinfonie singulière in its finale. www.recordsinternational.com /RICatalogSep00.html   (1354 words)

related bands These songs were all recorded on to a cassette tape which I kept in my back pocket for a couple months (including a tour), then thrown on a DAT tape by P Hix and mastered by this guy Josquin computer stuff computed by Jeff Motch. for smile x records it also came out on an european release from kfb footprint --- track 11 - the urquan destroyer was recorded live at the old casbah in 93 and came out of the casbah musica del diablo comp. Additional recordeing at John and Stus, and Zeitgeist Mixed by Steve Fisk and John Goldmanson at the Village Recorder, June 96. pinback.s9.xrea.com /related_bands.html   (1354 words)

The Troggs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In the early 1970s, in an attempt to re-create their 1960s successes, the Troggs re-united with Larry Page, now running Penny Farthing Records, but the resulting cover version of the Beach Boys hit Good Vibrations did not capture the public's imagination. The Troggs are widely seen as a highly influential band whose sound was one inspiration for garage rock and punk rock. The Troggs were signed by the manager of The Kinks in 1966 and recorded on Larry Page's Page One Records. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Troggs   (1354 words)

Review - A Penny Dreadful by Gustave Morin The figure of the broadcast tower abounds in A Penny Farthing, mirrored by the essentially circular flow of audio records, self-interfering fisherman knots, rollercoaster technologies. The penny, for Morin (I mean, of course, for me) is both the cinematic lens and the overruling archetype with which all things are viewed and compared. Upon closer examination I feel that the grains of the wood are actually the textures of a penny bent on the tracks of a train. www.danforthreview.com /reviews/fiction/morin.htm   (1354 words)

Penny Farthing Tours After doing a small business course he established a small yet growing tourism business that offered penny farthing rides around the town and surrounding area. So that people planning to come to Launceston or Evandale would have a way to do something different and see the magnificent sites, Jeff knew the best way was on a penny farthing - or similar old bicycle. Already this site has been linked to by other local tourism and penny farthing groups. www.allbutt.net /designs/portfolio/pennyfarthing_tours.html   (1354 words)

Cloud Chamber 114 The film's Possum pedals around on a penny-farthing bicycle attached to a sidecar (boatshaped, with mast and sail) with the wombat as passenger; they knock Bunyip down before he ever meets the Noble Society of Puddin'-Owners, and then crash into a shop kept by Benjimen Brandysnap (no longer a market-gardener or an important character). However, the film gives no explanation of why Bill concludes that Bunyip is too short to be a Puddin'-thief. The thieves' disguise as firemen is retained -- likewise, Bunyip's luring them out of Watkin Wombat's summer residence by the promise of a patent Pudding Enlarger. www.ansible.co.uk /cc/cc114.html   (1354 words)

Mountain unicycling from World Wide Web Find BMX Cycloball Cyclocross Mountain bicycling Mountain unicycling Road cycling Track cycling Unicycle trials Extreme sports BASE jumping Bodyboarding Bungee jumping Military Fitness Motocross Parkour Rock climbing Skateboarding Snowboarding Wakeboarding Gymnastics Gymnastic sports. Mountain bikes have a smaller and stronger frame, knobby tires on wheels that are wider and smaller in diameter, a lower range of gears to facilitate climbing up hills and over obstacles,... See live article   Offroad cycling Offroad cycling is a sport where bicycles (and unicycles !) are ridden outside of standard grounds, for example on narrow mountain trails. www.worldwidewebfind.com /Mountain-unicycling-.html   (1354 words)

Definition of The Prisoner The symbol of The Village is the Penny Farthing bicycle; almost every villager wears a badge, displaying the pennyfarthing with their number in the large wheel. So, Number 2 is undoubtedly saying "You are Number Six", but it is likely that it was the intention of the writer to allude to the other possible meaning of the phrase. Also, the closing credits feature an animation incorporating the device. www.wordiq.com /definition/The_Prisoner   (1354 words)

john mccready Kingbee Records Lesser mortals are known by their secret nicknames Mr Chainsmoker, Mr Knocked The Turntable Over, Penny Farthing Face (who once parked his strange bicycle outside the shop) and Girl With Black Hair Who's Going Through A Folky Phase. Neil: "The shop window is full of record sleeves and a woman popped her head in the door the other week asking if we sold nail clippers". Kingbee somehow houses around 30,000 records, not including a basement full of delights spoken about in whispers by the cognoscenti. www.mccready.cwc.net /kingbee.html   (1354 words)

Ken Lawrence: Before the Penny Black In May of 1840, when Great Britain issued the one-penny and two-pence stamps, stamped envelopes, and lettersheets that those men had designed, standing on the shoulders of many who had come before, they represented a leap forward for worldwide communication -- a success story for which they are justly celebrated. According to Lidman, the lettersheet was to be folded with the stamps on the outside, and the sender would have written a portion of the address over them, serving as a cancellation to prevent reuse. Mulready and Hill were carrying forward traditions that had been tested and were under way, in fits and (mostly false) starts for the previous two centuries in Europe, as postal services that originally served only the elite, conducted by the House of Thurn and Taxis, were gradually appropriated by the entire people. www.norbyhus.dk /btpb.html   (1354 words)

Ockhams Razor - 6/4/2003: Taking a Header - A history of the bicycle Dorset marriage records from the late 19th century show a considerable increase in inter-parish marriages after the introduction of the bicycle. Jim Fitzpatrick, in his 1980 book ‘The Bicycle and the Bush’ records that the fastest long distance journey by horse was 300 miles in 52-1/2 hours, whereas a bicycle rider once did 428 miles in 24 hours. Such record distances were unusual, and 50 to 75 miles a day was more common. www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ockham/stories/s823647.htm   (1354 words)

A City ...Waiting for the Sunrise: Toronto in Song and Sound Another early Toronto jazz song is bassist Jim McHarg's "Stompin' at the Penny," a Dixieland-style homage to the Penny Farthing, a jazz club in Yorkville where McHarg often played with his band, the Metro Stompers. Recordings of Toronto songs from the post-World War II era are numerous and include "singles," tracks from albums, and even entire albums. At the time of writing, twenty-two of these tunes had been preserved in a recorded format on cassette (Figure 2), but the show itself was prematurely canceled when the Limelight Dinner Theatre, where it was being presented, was suddenly sold to new owners who intended to convert it from a dinner theatre into a nightclub. cjtm.icaap.org /content/26/doucet.html   (1354 words)

Miscellaneous meanderings and myriad mumblings It was actually a race between a number of runners, cyclists and the Penny Farthing but with different time handicaps. It won by a reasonable number of seconds (I do wonder if this was fixed as it was the final year for the Farthing - racing it had become too dangerous!) - still fun, mind. Identity cards were dismissed by Harold Wilson's Labour government as expensive and ineffective, records have revealed. www.livejournal.com /users/syllopsium   (1354 words)

penny farthing records cds, records, cd singles, rare vinyl, used music penny farthing records searchable catalogue for rare, new, imports and collectable records, cds and used music penny farthing records cds, records, cd singles, rare vinyl, used music www.netsoundsmusic.com /nst/nsr/1134/Penny%20Farthing%20Records/3.html   (1354 words)

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