We go wheeling our way down memory lane, with this 120-year-old photograph.

It shows the Burnley Zingari Cycling Club - a name historians believe was borrowed from an amateur cricket club without a home, the I Zingari, whose title is Italian for The Gypsies'.

Burnley reference library records show that in 1989, when this picture was taken, the town had numerous cycling clubs, some of which strongly adhered to the temperance movement and gave the pubs a miss on their travels!

But there is no record of this particular group, who went cycling attired in knee breeches, ties, waistcoats and best bowlers!

The photo was taken when the giant penny- farthing bicycle was coming to the end of the road and being superseded by bikes with same-size wheels, powered by the newly-invented chain drive.

So the owners of the other bikes here must have been real front runners in Burnley's cycling circles.

They do, however, have foot rests attached to the front forks, showing that the rear-hub free wheel device, which made life safer for riders on downhill descents, had yet to arrive on the scene!