Steam Unicycle Journeys

Entry the Second , 15th of May, 1873 This morning dawned with a pallor most unconvincing,Cornish light, hesitant, as though unsure whether to proclaim day or retreat into perpetual sea-mist. From my window in Penzance, I espied the harbour masts rising like so many quills from an overturned porcupine, and beyond them the grey Atlantic … Read more

From the Journals of Basil Bromley, Artist and Mechanician Pimlico Wilde is proud to have been chosen to serialise Basil Bromley’s Journals. Here he covers his first art journey, as they came to be known, from Land’s End to John O’Groats. Entry the First , 14th of May, 1873 It is with a mingling of … Read more