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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

All the World's a Village

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Interesting.
    "1881: Universal Postal Union agreement
    The international parcel service, which allowed the orderly shipment of mailed packages and parcels from one country to another according to predetermined rates, was established by the Universal Postal Union on 1 October 1881 (Great Britain, India, The Netherlands and Persia, 1 April 1882), following the agreement of 1880 in Paris during a three-week conference on the subject. ..."
    From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parcel_post#1881:_Universal_Postal_...
  • Architecture of Dublin said:
  • John Spooner said:
    First press mention of J Hinshelwood of Miller St, Glasgow, I could find, as an agent for the Crimean Army Parcels Agency. Glasgow Herald - Friday 27 April 1855
    Glasgow Herald - Friday 27 April 1855
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Architecture of Dublin They were in 5 Eden Quay before that. I wonder was it expansion that moved them along to no. 8 by 1883?
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Spotted at No. 8 - see megazoom - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000337978
    Someone might find a better one. Several railway company offices nearby.

Celebrating the other side's Armada

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