My YouTube Hyde Park Pet Cemetery vlog is now live!
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The only way it was possible to enter the Pet Cemetery section of Hyde Park was via one of their Hidden Stories of Hyde Park tours, so I duly paid and and signed up.
The Pet Cemetery was opened in 1881. Mr Winbridge was the gatekeeper and he began burying dogs in the garden, starting with a Maltese Terrier called Cherry, whose owners were friends of the gatekeeper and who used to visit the park frequently. The second dog to be interred here was Prince, who was owned by Sarah Fairbrother, an actress who called herself Louisa and who was married (illegally) to HRH Prince George of Cambridge. From then on a trend was started, and the cemetery became the place for the fashionable members of society who lived near the park to bury their much-loved pets. Mr Winbridge carried out the interments (usually alone, as the owners were often too distressed to attend), placing the deceased animals in canvas bags, which he then sewed up, before burying them. There are several birds buried here, and at least one monkey.
Come and take a walk in my shoes and I'll tell you a bit about this Lilliputian graveyard, which George Orwell called 'the most horrible spectacle in London'. Some of the animals had "human" names, and some pet names, such as Tippo, Butcha, Moussoo and Chips. But Smut, Phisto, Titsy, Drag and Scum? I pity those poor animals, and I also pity Balu, who was allegedly murdered!
As you know, first and foremost I am a writer, and I have also blogged about Hyde Park Pet Cemetery, link:-
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