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#432809 21st Sep 2010 7:03pm
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Anyone hear about the two tigers that escaped from a circus adjacent to Tranmere Rovers? It was on 27th June 1939. One called Bengal was easily recaptured but the other called Romeo jumped the hawthorn hedge that is still there and lay down in the garden of no 749. He then moved to 745 where he fell asleep apparently in the garage of 745. Oddly though I can't see any garages there only sheds. Must have been a big shed to get a tiger in. Not a B&Q 4x6 then.

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I remember a small brown bear escaping from New Brighton zoo and ebing caught in back entry off Egerton street.

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i remember a story about a lizard or a snake found up a tree in birkenhead a couple years ago think it was in sum ones garden was in paper

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I remember a giant gorilla that climbed Wallasey town hall and tried to catch passing planes.Or do I just think I remember.

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No I saw that too.

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Originally Posted by ludwigvan
I remember a giant gorilla that climbed Wallasey town hall and tried to catch passing planes.Or do I just think I remember.


I had a dream about that lol

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Theres a horse buried at the top of Whetstone Lane from viking times. (citation needed sue or tc?) and an elephant buried at the Tower Grounds, N.B.

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Heard about the elephant. IN ireland it was the custom to bury a horse's head under the lounge floor.

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Problematic if you were in the flat upstairs.

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Just reading this old post and found that Tigers did escape.

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My Father who lived at Prince’s newsagents Broadway roundabout, told me that tale, he saw them


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