Scorchers fined

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Date:1900

Description:A newspaper cutting from the "Handsworth Herald", 25th August 1900.
This cutting deals with the fining of several "scorchers", (people who rode bicycles in a reckless way). Foster Catchpole of Francis Road , Handsworth
was fined 10s for riding his bicycle at speeds of fourteen or fifteen miles an hour in Newtown Row.

Taken from the G.H. Osborne newscuttings collection.

Related themes:

Handsworth Crime & Punishment Bicycles 1837 - 1900 (Victorian Period)

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Source: Local Studies & History Department , Birmingham Central Library

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