Rabbit keeping in 1904

[Accy cyclist]

I've just found this on a bookshelf in a local supermarket. The books are donated so that folk can give money for a charity, set up for a local girl who I think sadly died due to an incurable illness. I gave £1 for it, thinking it was quite old from probably the 1920's/30's. I'm not into rabbit keeping, but just found it worth buying it, due to its age. I was surprised when looking inside the book that it's from 1904. Heck, that makes it 119 years old! It's a bit tatty and the pages seem to be made of a thin cardboard rather than paper. It's quite interesting to have a book that was written and printed before the first world war and only three years after Queen Victoria died. I wonder if Henrietta Street in London still exists. 🤔

Mmm, do rabbits drink? 🤔

 

[Slick]

Got to be worth a quid Accy.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Got to be worth a quid Accy.

Definitely! Not only for a good cause, but having something so old is er, quite interesting!

 

[wiggydiggy]

I guarantee someone about to depart for their new life in Australia read that book and thought "What a good idea"!

 

[Cycleops]

It wasn't too long ago that rabbit was common fare in butchers shops. These days most would recoil but it's quite tasty, very similar to chicken.

 

[Accy cyclist]

It wasn't too long ago that rabbit was common fare in butchers shops. These days most would recoil but it's quite tasty, very similar to chicken.

My dad used to talk of a 'fourpenny rabbit', in reference to wild rabbits in butchers shops during war-time rationing.

 

[Alex321]

I've just found this on a bookshelf in a local supermarket. The books are donated so that folk can give money for a charity, set up for a local girl who I think sadly died due to an incurable illness. I gave £1 for it, thinking it was quite old from probably the 1920's/30's. I'm not into rabbit keeping, but just found it worth buying it, due to its age. I was surprised when looking inside the book that it's from 1904. Heck, that makes it 119 years old! It's a bit tatty and the pages seem to be made of a thin cardboard rather than paper. It's quite interesting to have a book that was written and printed before the first world war and only three years after Queen Victoria died. I wonder if Henrietta Street in London still exists. 🤔


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Mmm, do rabbits drink? 🤔

Henrietta Street still exists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Street,_Covent_Garden

It seems that the publisher (not related to the later publisher Pearson's, now Pearson Education) was at 17-18 Henrietta Street, and was mainly a publisher of magazines, comics, and newspapers, but also published some books.
Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Arthur_Pearson_Ltd

 

[Alex321]

It wasn't too long ago that rabbit was common fare in butchers shops. These days most would recoil but it's quite tasty, very similar to chicken.

It was even available in supermarkets, though usually diced rather than whole.

For a while in our previous house, I used to catch and eat rabbits (using a cage trap), until somebody stole the trap. Didn't bother replacing it because a wave of Mixy came through just after, and we hardly saw any rabbits after that until just before we moved out.

 

[Slick]

It wasn't too long ago that rabbit was common fare in butchers shops. These days most would recoil but it's quite tasty, very similar to chicken.

Very different smell when its cooking though.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I heard that those frozen rabbit pieces in supermarket freezers are from China. 🤔

 

[Time Waster]

There's a big history of rabbit farming in some areas. Iirc sw England has a few place names with Warren in them. That's because they were rabbit farming there. Man-made warrens for them I believe. I think the last of the old ones shut down in the 60s I think or perhaps bit earlier.

 

[Alex321]

There's a big history of rabbit farming in some areas. Iirc sw England has a few place names with Warren in them. That's because they were rabbit farming there. Man-made warrens for them I believe. I think the last of the old ones shut down in the 60s I think or perhaps bit earlier.

Yes, there is a place I cycle past regularly here in the Vale of Glamorgan called Warren Mill farm. It is now a tourist place with a fishery in the old mill pond, and the farmhouse (originally a corn mill) being guest accommodation.

I presume that as well as the mill, there used to be a farm warren.

 

[Reynard]

Nice one @Accy cyclist - I'm a sucker for old and interesting books. Lovely to see it rescued.

P.S. I'm partial to a nice rabbit casserole

 

[FrankCrank]

Learned something new already mangelwurzels are also called mangold wurzels.

 

[T4tomo]

Henrietta Street still exists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Street,_Covent_Garden

It seems that the publisher (not related to the later publisher Pearson's, now Pearson Education) was at 17-18 Henrietta Street, and was mainly a publisher of magazines, comics, and newspapers, but also published some books.
Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Arthur_Pearson_Ltd

That was my first thought re Pearson.
Henrietta st is the one that goes off the bottom end of the CG Piazza