We're guessing that June was a wild or feral animal of some sort, possibly a duck, since she seems to have spent her time at and around Lord Holland's pond, in Holland Park. Also, her friends provide no dates nor a surname for her. If we are wrong and June was a person, we can only apologise!
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Gerald Durrell
Writer and zoologist. Born Gerald Malcolm Durrell in Jamshedpur, Mayurbhanj, India. Brother to author Lawrence Durrell (1912-90). After his father's death his mother moved the family to Britain in...
Margaret Mary Damer Dawson
Born Sussex. Founder of the Women’s Police Force, in WW1. Organizing Secretary of the animal campaigning organisation the Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society. This opposed vivisection, camp...
Bernard N. Mills
Second son of Bertram. The picture shows him with his brother, Cyril. We think Bernard is on the left. Died at home in London.
Sheridan’s Stables
Harrow Through Time by Don Walter dates this bucolic image to 1795.
donkeys of Covent Garden
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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