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."
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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
donkeys of Covent Garden
Covent Garden Area Trust has an interesting page about the unveiling ceremony.
Johnson described Hodge as 'a very fine cat indeed'. All the information you...
This site was first developed in 1795 for use by the Horse Guards. The barrac...
Founded by John Courage at the Anchor Brewhouse site. The earliest existing ...
