Friday 5 March 2010
A shark in St George's Square
One of the more unusual sights in St George’s Square, Portsmouth in 1813 must have been that of an enormous preserved basking shark. Placed on a vehicle which advertised, ‘The wonderful fish from Brighton, Sussex’, it attracted great crowds. Its owner reportedly made the huge sum of £600 from the spectacle.
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