Drumlanrig Castle Cycle Museum
Thornhill, Dumfriesshire DG3 4AQ - Scotland, UK
Phone: +44 (0)1848 600 283 - Fax: +44 (0)1848 600 244
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Drumlanrig Cycle Museum, situated within the old stableyard of the castle, has a superb collection of bicycles ranging from a replica of the original pedal-powered machine, an 1868 velocipede, several Victorian tricycles and penny farthings, early safety bicycles, a 1912 Dursley Pederson and a display of the progressions over the years up to the modern bicycle. In approximately 1839, local blacksmith Kirkpatrick Macmillan, added foot operated treadles to cranks to turn the back wheel of a wooden hobby horse. Thereby producing the world’s first bicycle!
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