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Imitations are disappointing

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 29 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Hadji Bey cropped up in this photo a few years ago -
  • beachcomber australia said:
    See also via TG4 the 1902+ shop in Cork - ... and the Great Man -
  • Carol Maddock said:
    €10.45 in our local fancy schmancy food shop!
  • DannyM8 said:
    Send me some now!
  • beachcomber australia said:
    'Made at 7 Parnell Place, Cork" seems to be a bus station now. Not such a Turkish Delightful view - maps.app.goo.gl/vYPKPJeLkbhorxdg6

Tapiirs. Ostriches and Hippotamuses in Sackville Street

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 29 older comments, and then…
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Yes, 1808

    www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2025/0711/1495830-elephant-house-du...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    "Stephen Polito (also known as Stephano, Stephani and Stephanus Polito; 1763/64–1814) was a menagerie owner of Italian descent in Georgian England.
    Polito was born in Moltrasio, Italy. He owned a menagerie which he toured around England in the late 18th century. He went into partnership with another menagerist named Miles in 1798, and "Miles and Polito's Menagerie" exhibited at St Bartholomew's Fair in 1799. Polito's menagerie also attended Nottingham Goose Fair in 1807. ... ...

    From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Polito

    Staffordshire pottery flat back mantelpiece ornament, c. 1830 of the Menagerie of the Polito family. V&A Museum
  • John Spooner said:
    Early 1908, a notice with similar wording appeared in Saunders's News-Letter on Tuesday 26 January 1808.

    Mr Pollito had been in Briston in September 1807.

    The adverts in Saunders News-letter continued until 14th May 1808, At some point between 26th January and 4th March the admission price was reduced to "One British Shilling".

    So some time between 26th early January and 4th March 1808.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    There is another one in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
    Via Simon Wilkinson who includes a bit of history -
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Of course, the Zoo didn’t open until 1831, so these were great novelties

Peace between the Houses of York and Lancaster

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 8 older comments, and then…
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Note the railway’s crest in the top corner

    commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lancashire_and_Yorkshir...(2)_(cropped).jpg

    They became part of the LMS following the 1923 grouping.

    No two of their stations were more than 5 miles apart!
  • beachcomber australia said:
    A Presentation to B. Shaw, to be sure !
  • Suck Diesel said:
    The football team of the L&YR Carriage and Wagon works at Newton Heath, Manchester, evolved into Manchester United F.C.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Image 9 of 35 says "From a few of his Old Friends in the Irish and English and South of Ireland Traffic Conferences June 1902"
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Image 30 of 35 says "Illuminated by McCarr, Stevenson & Orr, Ltd., in succession to Marcus Ward & Co., Belfast"

    www.dib.ie/biography/stevenson-john-a8291