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The Hyde Park pet cemetery (originally the London Hyde Park Dog Cemetery and advertised as The Secret Pet Cemetery of Hyde Park) is a disused burial ground for animals in Hyde Park, London. It was established in 1880 or 1881 in the garden of Victoria Lodge, home of one of the park keepers.
The grave of Able Seacat Simon. Ilford Animal Cemetery is an animal cemetery in Ilford in London, England, United Kingdom that contains over three thousand burials. [1] It was founded in the 1920s and is operated by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals. [2]
London's Hyde Park was the site of an informal pet cemetery between 1881 and 1903, in the gatekeeper's garden. [5] From the first burial of "Cherry" until its official closure in 1903, it received 300 burials with miniature headstones, [ 6 ] with a final special burial of the Royal Marines mascot dog "Prince" in 1967.
Piranha fish swimming within a City of London Police sentry box. [5] The sentry box was built in the 1990s and is owned by the City of London Corporation . Detective Chief Inspector Andy Spooner of the City of London Police said that they were " ... aware of criminal damage to a City of London Police box in Ludgate Hill" and that the police ...
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Woodgreen Pets Charity was founded in 1924 by Miss Louisa Snow. She had been concerned at the large number of abandoned and injured animals on the streets of London following the First World War. This led to her opening a centre in a house in Lordship Lane, North London. [1] In 1987 the charity opened its centre in Godmanchester, Cambridge. The ...
The Animals in War Memorial is a war memorial, in Hyde Park, London, commemorating the countless animals that have served and died under British military command throughout history. It was designed by English sculptor David Backhouse and unveiled in November 2004 by Anne, Princess Royal .
Jack Black's sales of rats as pets during the 1840s and 1860s played a role in the rat's domestication and widespread acceptance as a pet. He bred many different colours of the rats, which became known as fancy rats. [5] By 1869, Charles Baudelaire called the rat "the poor child’s toy" in his poetry collection Le Spleen de Paris. [3]