Animal    From 1799 

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Categories: Animals

Close companion to Captain Matthew Flinders. Born on HMS Reliance while in the the Southern Indian Ocean. He accompanied Flinders around Australia and to Mauritius. Wikipedia has a lot to say about this cat who survived drowning a few times but ultimately disappeared possibly ending up as someone's dinner.

Wikipedia informs of 3 other statues of Trim: Sydney and Port Lincoln in Australia and Donington, Lincolnshire.

We never managed to get an acceptable photo of Trim at Euston so we are doubly grateful to YourSculpture for achieving this image.

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Flinders statue

Unveiled by Prince William at Australia House on 18 July 2014 and installed i...

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Trim statue

See the Flinders statue page for the inscription etc.

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Towpath Horse

Towpath Horse

We can't find any biographical information about the horse.

Animal, Animals

1 memorial
Tycho

Tycho

Dog buried in the V&A garden. 2016:Londonist led us to the V&A's unveiling of the identity of Tycho. Sir Henry Cole's diary for Saturday, 4 February 1882 reports ‘Out in Gardens with Tycho...

Animal, Animals

1 memorial
Jim

Jim

Died aged almost 16, faithful dog of Sir Henry Cole, buried in the V&A garden. First mentioned in Cole’s diary entry for 11 December 1863: "Walked out with Tishy & Jimmy". And on 30 Januar...

Animal, Animals

1 memorial
William Moorcroft

William Moorcroft

Pioneer veterinary surgeon, Asian explorer.  Born Lancashire.  First Englishman to qualify as a vet, in France, during a revolution.  He set up in practice in Oxford Street, creating a horse hosp...

Person, Animals, Exploring, Medicine, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Tibet, Uzbekistan

1 memorial
Sugar

Sugar

Sugar was John Henderson's companion for 10 years before she died. When Sugar died John said: “She was my best friend and I was hers. We did everything together. ... “She was a rescue dog. One day ...

Animal, Animals

1 memorial

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Sivas massacre

2 July 1993 at the Hotel Madimak in Sivas, Turkey, people had gathered for the Pir Sultan Abdal {poet executed c. 1560} festival. A mob set fire to the hotel killing 35 people, mostly Alevi (a loca...

Event, Tragedy, Turkey

1 memorial
Charles Wall

Charles Wall

Builder active in 1885. Nominative determinism strikes again - see Isambard Brunel for more examples.

Person, Property

1 memorial
World War 1

World War 1

We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...

Event, Armed Forces, Tragedy

403 memorials
Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano

Born in an African village, he was sold into slavery, first locally, then in England, then in America where he managed to buy his freedom. He returned to England and wrote the first autobiography o...

Person, Literature, Race Issues, Africa

6 memorials