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The Theatre Royal
View showing Dr Samuel Johnson's house at no 17
with a street scene and horse-drawn vehicles
Tightrope walker
London to Brighton Emancipation Run Size:S: 36 x 28cm The Theatre RoyalLondon to Brighton Emancipation Run, 1896. A huge crowd gathered on the street. In Britain in the 1890s, the law still required motor vehicles to be preceded by a pedestrian carrying a red flag to warn other road users, which effectively restricted the vehicles' speed to 4 mph. A number of pioneer motor car enthusiasts campaigned actively to have the law altered. In 1896 the Locomotives on Highways Act came into force and the preceding pedestrian was
