A KITTEN'S teaparty and rat's playing dominoes are the bizarre creations by one of Britain's great eccentrics pictured in an incredible new book. Other spookily compelling taxidermy images show a bird's funeral complete with casket, a kitten's wedding and a well-dressed stuffed monkey riding a goat. The stuffed curios were all created by Victorian Englishman Walter Potter, who originally displayed his strange taxidermy creatures to the awe-struck paying public from The White Lion Pub which doubled as his museum in Bramber, Sussex. Brought up in Bramber from 1835 and dying in 1918, Potter's museum continued to entertain until 1970, when it passed to the Jamaica Inn of Brighton. In 2003 the surviving collection was auctioned for half-a-million pounds to various buyers from across the world.
A grand 56-bedroom hotel, once heaving with injured soldiers during the First World War, now lies completely abandoned .
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From giant mountains to vast deserts, an American photographer spent a year capturing the diverse and beautiful landscape of the United States .
A kingfisher’s bright blue and orange feathers glisten in the sunlight as the bird dives into a lake .
SNEAKING slowly into the water, this Bengal tiger plans a vicious attack on three unsuspecting deer .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
A BUMPER season of births has left zoo with three of the cutest exotic kittens you're likely to see .
A host of websites that are almost twenty years old are collecting a cult following thanks to their retro appeal .