Animals have featured in the lives and cultures of the people of
Merseyside since the dawn of time, and in so many ways. Beastly
Merseyside describes this, and tells wonderful stories about these
animals, and about the roles they have played. Horses have carried
us and our weaponry into battle for millennia, right up to the wars
of the twentieth century. They have ploughed our fields, carried
our goods, and pulled our carts, wagons, carriages, stagecoaches,
canal barges, buses, trams, and ambulances. We have been racing
horses on Merseyside for centuries. We have hunted animals for
food, from rabbits and ducks to those great leviathans of the sea,
the whales. Liverpool's whaling fleet was once one of the most
important in Britain. We have also hunted, and in some cases still
hunt, animals simply for 'sport'. This has included dog-fighting,
cockfighting, bear and bull baiting, as well as fox hunting, hare
coursing, and shooting. Animals have entertained us on the streets,
in the days of dancing bears and organ grinders' monkeys; in
circuses; and in the very many zoos we have had on Merseyside,
again over many centuries. Animals have also rescued us, provided
comfort to us, and helped us to see and hear. In Beastly
Merseyside, popular local historian Ken Pye tells tales about the
likes of Mickey the Chimp, Liverpool's own 'King Kong'; the
execution of Rajah the Elephant; Pongo the Man Monkey; the amazing
Hale Duck Decoy; the 'Lion in the Wheelbarrow'; the
nineteenth-century Knowsley Great Aviary and the modern safari
park; and why and how the Liver Bird became the emblem of
Liverpool. Full of well-researched, informative, and entertaining
facts, this book really shows just how vital a role animals of all
kinds have played, and continue to play, in our lives and
communities.
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