Author: COLLEY, Thomas
Title: The Banbury Pedestrian - Thomas Colley.
Description: Banbury: J.G. Rusher, printer, [1816] Single sheet of text, 250 x 175 mm, together with 2 hand coloured portrait engravings of 'pedestrians.' Thomas Colley, a Banbury baker undertook to walk 1020 miles in 20 days in the country around the town in March and April, 1816. The text sheet reports the number of miles walked each day with his start and finish times, ending with a celebration "The Pedestrian was then Chaired down and up the Course, amidst the Acclamations and Congratulations of many Thousand Spectators...An Ox was Roasted in the Field, on the last Day of the Performance." The two hand coloured engraving represent George Wilson, the Blackheath pedestrian, who completed his most celebrated walk of 1,000 miles in 20 days on Blackheath Common in 1815, which probably prompted Colley's feat [and the extra 20 miles]. The other engraving is unidentified but would appear to also show a pedestrian.

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