Animals of London

“But I like the animals better than the ‘best people’,” said the Doctor.

Boissenvain & Osmond's Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre, Elephant & Castle, Southwark, SE1

“You are ridiculous,” said his sister, and walked out of the room.

Yolanda Vandergaast's Penguin, Clare Market, Holborn, Westminster, WC2A

So, as time went on, the Doctor got more and more animals…

Kenny Hunter's I Goat, Spitalfields Square, Old Spitalfields Market, Horber Square, Tower Hamlets, E1

and the people who came to see him got less and less.

Battersea Park, Battersea, Wandsworth, SW11

Till at last he had no one left…

Ai Weiwei's Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, Somerset House, Strand, Westminster, WC2R

except the Cat’s-meat-Man, who didn’t mind any kind of animals.

Nic Fiddian-Green's Horse at Water, Marble Arch, Westminster, W1H

But the Cat’s-meat Man wasn’t very rich and he only got sick once a year–at Christmas-time, when he used to give the Doctor sixpence for a bottle of medicine.

Regent's Canal, Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets, E2

From Hugh Lofting’s The Story of Dr Dolittle (1920)

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