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.
THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS - 250 DRIVERS ARRESTED FOR STREET RACING IN BIRMINGHAM- In Pic - The start line on the Heartlands Parkway Nechels Birmingham .
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THE THOUGHT OF BECOMING shipwrecked on a remote destination would fill most holidaymakers with dread .
TENNIS was a game made for three according to the first Victorian rule book .
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WITH STUNNING colours and serene scenes, these photographs capture the otherworldly beauty of the English coast .
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OFFERING a glimpse into the past, a mash-up of old and new photographs show how the world’s biggest cities have changed .
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A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .