100,000 costermongers' donkeys worked in and around the market. The picture source says: "In the 1860s there were as many as 2,000 donkey barrows on a Saturday morning in Covent Garden Market."
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
donkeys of Covent Garden
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Covent Garden donkeys
Covent Garden Area Trust has an interesting page about the unveiling ceremony.
Other Subjects
Virginia McKenna
Actor and wild-life campaigner. Â Born Marylebone. Â Briefly married to actor Denholm Elliott, then to actor Bill Travers 1957 until his death in 1994. Â Played Violette Szabo, in the 1958 film 'Carve...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Beatrix Potter
Artist, writer and sheep breeder. Born Helen Beatrix Potter at 2 Bolton Gardens, South Kensington where she lived in the third floor nursery until she was in her thirties. She used her second name ...
Person, Art, Children, Animals, Literature, Seriously Famous
1 memorial
Sir Michael Sobell
A businessman, major philanthropist, and prominent owner/breeder of thoroughbred racehorses. Born in Galicia, now part of Poland. The family moved to London in 1903 to escape antisemitism and sett...
1 memorial
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