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https://www.historyextra.com/period/mod ... menagerie/
My interest in the subject was initially piqued by the Grauniad's modern tale of escaped beasts all over Britain (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... our-street). But it swiftly became clear that London had everywhere else beaten.
For example, in this stirring account of Wombwell's travelling menagerie, which managed to lose a tiger in 1810, right in the middle of Piccadilly. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-aY ... illy+Tiger
And to think, the best that my generation could manage was the bull who fled the Royal Smithfield Show in the 1970s, and who made it nearly as far as Harrods before he was eventually rounded up. A former girlfriend of mine was supposed to have been in charge of him at the time. Oooops.
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BJ