This is the location of the often posted 1899 etching and news story "Thrashed by a Lady Cyclist, who is noted for her athletic powers" The date was July 1, 1899 when a British weekly magazine, called The Illustrated Police News, published an article with the title “THRASHED BY A LADY CYCLIST, WHO IS NOTED FOR HER ATHLETIC POWERS” with a great illustration and an amusing story. “An extraordinary scene was witnessed on Saturday morning in Peel Lane, a thoroughfare connecting Little Hulton with Tyldesley, in which the principal participants were a young lady cyclist and a youth of nineteen or t…