The 'new' Leeds Museum

Post by **cnosni** » Fri 19 Sep, 2008 7:44 pm

LS1 wrote: Croggy wrote: Very interesting, Steve - how did this one end up in Leeds though?I'm in town on Monday - might call in and have a look then. It does tell you on the display. It was given in 1860 odd for some reason. Cant remember why though as presumably if it became extinct in the 1930's it would have been OK 70 years earlier. I thought the Leeds tiger was the actual Tiger that is there, and the other was known as a Tasmanian Wolf (although it does have a striped back like a tiger) Yes Lee there is an actual Tiger,well more of a soggy old cloth cat now.Looking forward to going back to see the old moggy and the mummy when i get down.

sundowner · Post by **sundowner** » Fri 19 Sep, 2008 8:11 pm

cnosni wrote: LS1 wrote: Croggy wrote: Very interesting, Steve - how did this one end up in Leeds though?I'm in town on Monday - might call in and have a look then. It does tell you on the display. It was given in 1860 odd for some reason. Cant remember why though as presumably if it became extinct in the 1930's it would have been OK 70 years earlier. I thought the Leeds tiger was the actual Tiger that is there, and the other was known as a Tasmanian Wolf (although it does have a striped back like a tiger) Yes Lee there is an actual Tiger,well more of a soggy old cloth cat now.Looking forward to going back to see the old moggy and the mummy when i get down. Hi cnosni it might look like a soggy old cat but when it was alive it was a man eater cant remember how many people it killed but kill people it did.

Fleetline · Post by **Fleetline** » Sat 20 Sep, 2008 2:28 am

Maybe it got soggy when it and the Mummy had to spend a night or two on Park Row after the original Museum got bombed in the 40s!

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Tue 23 Sep, 2008 12:29 pm

the Leeds tiger is the actual tiger not the tasmanian wolf. The Leeds Museum websites seems to say this anyway. It has a wierd shape to it's head!

Brandy · Post by **Brandy** » Tue 23 Sep, 2008 1:03 pm

All in all, he's just an old, saggy cloth cat. Baggy, and a bit loose at the seams.But cnosni loved him.lol

Inquirer · Post by **Inquirer** » Tue 23 Sep, 2008 4:22 pm

I went to the museum the other day and the traditional huge Leeds tiger with its snarl which I remember is there downstairs OK, but unlabelled. The Tasmanian version is also there but with much more info telling you about its extinction and its stuffed rarity.Has anyone else spotted the mistake in Collectors' Cabinet area? Some old photos are on display, one of them labelled as being Bolton Priory (because that's what it says on the back). But it isn't -it's Adel Parish Church before the nave roof was heightened.

sundowner · Post by **sundowner** » Tue 23 Sep, 2008 8:21 pm

LS1 wrote: the Leeds tiger is the actual tiger not the tasmanian wolf. The Leeds Museum websites seems to say this anyway. It has a wierd shape to it's head! Hi LS1 You are right about the Leeds tiger i have been going to the Museum since the late fiftys and have always known it as such I do not recall seeing the tasmanian wolf untill just before the museum closed a few years ago i think it could have been in storage?I could be wrong i might have missed it.The tiger used to have a card telling you all about it being a man eater. They must think it would be in poor taste to tell you about that now no pun lntended.

Penz · Post by **Penz** » Tue 23 Sep, 2008 9:00 pm

I seem to remember that the original Leeds museum (not the one just closed) had a proper coal mine as part of it. Am I right? Anyone remember it ... or been in it?

sundowner · Post by **sundowner** » Tue 23 Sep, 2008 9:20 pm

Penz wrote: I seem to remember that the original Leeds museum (not the one just closed) had a proper coal mine as part of it. Am I right? Anyone remember it ... or been in it?

sundowner · Post by **sundowner** » Tue 23 Sep, 2008 9:27 pm

Penz wrote: I seem to remember that the original Leeds museum (not the one just closed) had a proper coal mine as part of it. Am I right? Anyone remember it ... or been in it? Hi Penz If you look at the thread buildings and structures Leeds Museum you will find some posts about this this is a different thread to the new Museum.