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David Musgrove revisits the great wheelbarrow craze of 1886-7, alongside some of the strangest other crazes to grip Victorian Britain <\/p>

By Dr David Musgrove\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 22 February 2024 at 06:04 AM<\/p>

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The great wheelbarrow craze of 1886-7 was a short-lived media sensation, witnessing a flood of people charging from Scotland to London with barrows. One man had kicked off this bizarre trend \u2013 Bob Carlisle. In the fifth episode of our series on this larger-than-life character of the Victorian age, David Musgrove talks to Bob Nicholson to explore the genesis of 19th-century Britain\u2019s strangest crazes, and reveal what happened to Bob Carlisle while the wheelbarrow craze was in full swing.<\/p>\n

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