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
Commemorated ati
Covent Garden donkeys
Covent Garden Area Trust has an interesting page about the unveiling ceremony.
Other Subjects
1 memorial
Henry Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon, Lord Porchester
Racing Manager to Queen Elizabeth from 1969 until his death. A very close friend of the Queen, as described in the Telegraph, or a very, very, close friend of the Queen as described at Yahoo Answe...
1 memorial
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Diplomat, poet, hedonist and traveller. Born Petworth House, Sussex. Advocated anti-Imperialism, and supported Irish nationalism. Legendary womaniser, one being William Morris's wife, Jane. Married...
1 memorial
Sheridan’s Stables
Harrow Through Time by Don Walter dates this bucolic image to 1795.
1 memorial
Previously viewed
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Imperial Hotel - statue 06 - Drake
WC1, Russell Square
This statue is surely modelled on the Boehm statue of Drake erected at Tavistock with copies at Plymouth and elsewhere.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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