Old Bicycles

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Old Bicycles

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Location

Ballyboley, Ballynure

Year

1964

Date

Production 01/01/1964

Length

03min 22sec

Audio

mute, sound

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Funded by the Broadcast Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

UTV's Charlie Witherspoon reported in 1964 from the country lanes around Ballyboley, near Ballynure in Co Antrim, from the unusual platform of a penny farthing bicycle.

He was in the area to visit the collection of old bicycles maintained by the Meharg brothers.

As well as the penny farthing, Witherspoon also took to the roads on a bizarre tandem bicycle, where the two riders sit side by side rather than behind each other. He also grappled with another primitive early bicycle utilising a rather awkward steering wheel instead of handlebars.

Witherspoon was always good value in these location reports and his face as he struggles with these forgotten wrong turns in the history of cycling is quite a picture.

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.

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