Pair of Walsh and Clarke ploughing engines
East of England Sense of Place Suffolk
 

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The penny-farthing, properly known as the ordinary, was used between 1870 and 1890, but cycling did not become a mass pastime until the development of the safety bicycle in the 1880s. It then became popular in Suffolk as elsewhere, and by the turn

Bicycle
of the century an annual ball was being held at the Athenaeum in Bury St Edmunds by the town's two cycling clubs.
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