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.
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