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Tag: Bishopdale Sketching Club

Posted on April 15, 2021April 13, 2021 by Brianna Vincent

The Bear in the Bishopdale Sketching Club

On August 17th in 1890, Emily Harris wrote in her diary about ‘the bear’: A few months ago two Frenchmen came to Nelson with a dancing bear. A splendid animal not two years old, quite an infant its master said, although it was much taller than the man when it stood upon its hind legs. Read More…

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