Zoological Gardens, Regents Park, London

A sentimental account of a visit to the the Zoological Gardens was written by "Mrs Markham" two years before the newly-invented Budding's Mower was in use there. The account provides an insight to the activities of the zoo at the time.

Mrs Markham was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Penrose, a writer who was the daughter of Edmund Cartwright, the inventor of the power loom.