SteveHB Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 Miss Aurora's equestrian lion D'Artagnan and her mongrel French poodle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boginspro Posted June 24, 2018 Share Posted June 24, 2018 On 04/09/2011 at 17:01, DaveH said: As "Bostock and Wombwell" they were a very well known touring menagerie in their day. They had a pair of elephants called Nero and Rajah in their menagerie which did a lot of the hauling. In later days (early 20th century) they had a pair of very nice pair of Burrell showmans steam traction engines to do the same job. I believe the engines even carried the elephants names on their nameplates. Only one of the engines survives into present day preservation though. I note this is an old post and for me the links don't work but I have found posts and articles about this menagerie very interesting in the past. The menagerie certainly got around a bit, there is a place which we knew as The Elephants Graveyard when we lived in Aberdeenshire where an elephant was buried in August 1917. I have just realised that this was one of Bostock and Wombwell's elephants called Mona, though apparently Frank Bostock had died in 1912. They must have been a fantastic attraction when in Sheffield from 1910 to 1913. EDIT -- I am assuming the links don't work for anyone and not just me, these may be two of them ---------- https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/nfca/projects/sheffieldjungle ----------- https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/1806-1.174144 -- The quote above by DaveH is from this post ------ https://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/topic/11644-accident-to-wombwell39s-menagerie1867/?tab=comments#comment-93273 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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