Tag: Animal
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HRH (His Rolling Hulk)
Many people who lie in our cemeteries would have known, even visited, one of London’s best known animals. When I was about 7 or 8 I visited London Zoo for the first time. This was back when elephants and rhinos were still being kept in central London, which, considering it was the mid-1990’s, is bewildering.…
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The Tiger Who Came to Tea
Celebrating the lives of long gone Londoners – that’s what we’re about. Here’s someone we cover on our tours around Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park – an extraordinary man and an extraordinary animal. Imagine, being nine years old, amidst the grubby streets of London, looking into the piercing eyes of a beast more at home in…