Tuesday 11 January 2011

Day's Gallery of curiosities

Day's Gallery of curiosities is now exhibiting on the fairground. Amongst the curiosities of this establishment is the extraordinary youth Paul McAldon, the Hibernian Giant Boy, the heaviest man in the world; a troop of performing monkeys; a highly trained performing pony; and a beautiful case of mechanical humming birds - Admission - one penny.

Advert appeared in the Rochdale Observer dated Sat Jan 11th 1862

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