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Elephant on a country road

from North East Museums

  • kevin.scrivens said:
    Bostock & Wombwell's Menagerie on the road. The elephant is pulling one of the trucks, behind it you can just make out one of the camels which is assisting.
  • Geoffrey Younger said:
    Very likely Bostock & Wombwell's Menagerie on the Great North Road, Tyneside 1913

Man and lion cub

from North East Museums

  • Billy Embleton said:
    Great pictures, sadly theres nothing in the backgrounds to tie them down to any location I can think of.
  • ndlovu8 said:
    looks more like Capt Jack Luck to me?
  • Camilo Marin said:
    date?
  • Madamme La Bonche said:
    This is Fred Wombwell of Bostock and Wombwell Circus and Menagarie
  • North Tyne Hunt Sabs said:
    That cub belongs in the wild with it's mother not this idiot!

Leopard, Lord John Sanger & Sons

from North East Museums

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  • Tidy Magic said:
    That poor cat!
  • Peter Mackey said:
    thank goodness we no longer treat wild animals like this.
  • kevin.scrivens said:
    Looks like Jesmond Dene
  • Claire Dart said:
    www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=250&show=1 has information about Sanger circus
  • North Tyne Hunt Sabs said:
    Peter Mackey Not in this country anyway.