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Tapiirs. Ostriches and Hippotamuses in Sackville Street

  • 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

Scandalous behaviour in High Society

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  • Suck Diesel said:
    Sitters

    Henry Vernon Esmond (Harry Esmond Jack) (1869-1922), Actor and playwright.
    Ellis Jeffreys (1872-1943), Actress; wife of Herbert Sleath Skelton.
    Marie Kaye Wouldes Löhr (Lohr) (1890-1975), Actress-producer and manager of the Globe Theatre; former wife of Anthony Leyland Val Prinsep.
    Suzanne Sheldon (1875-1924), Actress.
    Edward O'Connor Terry (1844-1912), Actor and theatre proprietor.
    Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852-1917), Actor and theatre manager.
  • Suck Diesel said:
    www.npg.org.uk
  • beachcomber australia said:
    On the back of the postcard is ...

    Date from postmark. Inscribed in ink on verso: "Show this to / Mrs Hamilton. / Kind regards. / Self seated in / L. corner / [Ellen Terry?]"

    Which might be a cataloger's error for Edward O'Connor Terry (10 March 1844 – 2 April 1912) who is listed on the NPG website. He might be the sender of the postcard (NB 'X') - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_O%27Connor_Terry

    The postcard is addressed to " J. M. Lowry Esq, 16 Hatch St., Dublin. " Looks like it has been rebuilt; I was hoping to see the letterbox through which the postcard once slid!
    maps.app.goo.gl
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Lots of info on wiki - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_School_for_Scandal - including this ... "It is recorded that Jane Austen, who was said to be a fine actor, had played the part of Mrs Candour in 1812 in a private production with great aplomb."
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News April 17th 1909

    www.printsandephemera.com

Whiskey has an E in it, no matter what the Scots might say

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Evidently the distillery closed in 1929, according to Wikipedia -
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandon_Distillery
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Whiskeyview - maps.app.goo.gl/vBeq6dNtAr8VbmBC7
  • John Spooner said:
    I can't find any rules about attacking the foreman maltster with a shovel. Southern Star (Skibbereen) - Saturday 24 February 1917
    Southern Star (Skibbereen) - Saturday 24 February 1917

    BTW Welsh whisky doesn't have an E, whether it's in English like the bottle on my shelf, or in Welsh - wisgi
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Via Trove in 1888, from an article about "Irish Wit" -

    ... In Bandon the distillery of Messrs. Allman and Co. is known by the name "Al-co-Hall" ...

    See - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/169705916?searchTerm=B...
  • Mike Grimes said:
    John Spooner The current P.J. O'Driscoll lives up the road from my parents house. Obviously a name they kept in the family. Every now and again his peacocks would visit our garden and he'd have to come collect them. We still have some tail feathers in a vase in the hall.

    www.pjodriscoll.ie/history-of-pj-o-driscoll_s