Tag: Victorian London

  • The Day a Tiger Roamed London: The Legend of Jamrach’s Tiger

    The Day a Tiger Roamed London: The Legend of Jamrach’s Tiger

    Imagine walking down a cobbled street in Victorian London, the fog hanging thick, gas lamps casting an eerie glow, and then—just in front of you—a tiger, roaming freely, prowling through the East End like it owns the place. This isn’t the plot of a gothic novel but a true story from 1857, when one of…

  • Dr Hunter’s Menagerie of Exotic Animals

    Dr Hunter’s Menagerie of Exotic Animals

    In the heart of 18th-century London, a remarkable figure with a taste for the unconventional was turning his garden into something like a cross between Noah’s Ark and a surgical experiment.

  • The London pub that inspired a nursery rhyme

    The London pub that inspired a nursery rhyme

    The Eagle pub is the only pub that is immortalised in a nursery rhyme. Pop Goes the Weasel features the lines UP and Down The City Road, In and Out The Eagle….

  • London’s Grim Coffin Houses

    London’s Grim Coffin Houses

    In the shadowy underbelly of London’s sprawling metropolis lies a secret world that few dare to explore – the coffin houses. These grim and foreboding establishments are not for the faint of heart, nor for those who seek comfort and solace. No, they are the last refuge of the desperate, the destitute, and the damned.…

  • London’s Ratcatchers

    London’s Ratcatchers

    Back in Victorian times rats were a huge problem for Londoners. Rats could be found everywhere: in streets, homes, gardens, sewers. Londoners trained dogs and cats to catch them but still they kept coming so the job of Ratcatcher was introduced. Victorian ratcatchers was a recognised profession with its own trades guild. And they caught…