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A pleasant Georgian market town in the Forest
of Dean, Dursley has a number of strange
claims to fame, not the least of which is that
Harry Potter’s surviving fictional relatives,
the wicked Dursleys, were named after the
place.
It was Dursley that gave us the safety
bicycle, invented here by the Danish engineer
Mikael Pedersen in the 1890s.
He died in poverty after returning to his
homeland but his remains were later exhumed
and shipped back to Dursley in a wine box for
re-burial.
There is even a suggestion that William
Shakespeare worked in the town as a
schoolmaster. |
Raglan House, Mikael Pedersen's Home -
Photo:
Phil Champion
CCL |
