Cyclist Gallery
Available as Framed Prints, Photos, Wall Art and Gift Items
Choose from 219 pictures in our Cyclist collection for your Wall Art or Photo Gift. Popular choices include Framed Prints, Canvas Prints, Posters and Jigsaw Puzzles. All professionally made for quick delivery.
Featured Print
British Army messager pigeon service
Taking birds out: to the trenches by despatch-riders to let the pigeons fly for training. Regular going and coming supply service of birds between the pigeon homing lofts at Divisional and other headquarters was part of the ordinary Army routine at the Front, during World War One. Date: 1918
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
1918, 1st, Basket, Bird, Birds, Carrier, Communication, Communications, Crates, Cyclist, Despatch, Great, Homing, Pigeon, Pigeons, Rider, Riders, Service, Training, Transport, War, World, Ww1, Wwi
Featured Print
Union Workhouse, Hertford
A view of Hertford Union workhouse, Hertfordshire, opened in around 1869 on Ware Road, Hertford. The imposing three-storey building has a clock tower at its centre. Cyclists on the road in front of the building appear to have been painted into the scene to add interest.
© Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection
1860s, 1869, 1912, Architecture, Bicycle, Bicycles, Boys, Building, Buildings, Child, Children, Clock, Cyclist, Cyclists, Edwardian, Gate, Hertford, Hertfordshire, Historical, History, Homeless, Homelessness, Housing, Imposing, L Aw, Legislation, Pauper, Paupers, Poor, Poverty, Road, Storey, Tower, Traffic, Union, Victorian, Ware, Workhouse, Workhouses
Featured Print
First airmail letter delivered, Windsor Castle
The first airmail letter ever to be delivered is handed to the Postmaster of Windsor, to whom it is addressed, on the East Lawn of Windsor Castle. The aviator Gustav Hamel, who flew from Hendon to Windsor on the very first airmail flight, is standing bareheaded just behind the postman and his bicycle. The Mayor of Windsor, Sir Frederick Dyson, stands smiling in a top hat. The first aerial mail service took place on 9 September 1911 from Hendon Aerodrome to Windsor and back again, and Hamel was the first pilot to arrive. King George V gave permission for the aeroplanes to land in the grounds of Windsor Castle. During September 1911 the Grahame-White company operated an experimental air mail service for two weeks between Hendon and Windsor. As well commemorating the coronation of King George V, and raising money for charity, the event publicised the possibilities of the aeroplane as a means of transport.
© Mary Evans Picture Library
