Zebra taxi cab in Brixton Road!

[editor]

Good work! That looks spot on and the date is right too.... but the driver looks different as does the carriage, no?

 

[quimcunx]

Could be that the place it was stabled had different carriages available...


Minnie you are the googlemeister.


You should change your tagline.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Good work! That looks spot on and the date is right too.... but the driver looks different as does the carriage, no?

Well maybe if he was stabling it at Brixton, it was someone from the stables giving the zebra some exercise




















You doubter you


It's very hard doing research when your modem keeps switching off

 

[Pickman's model]

My son is the great grandson of Gustav Eichler he changed his name to Grais. I know he had at least two separate families who lived in London. My son's great grandmother was Evelyn Weaver whom we believe he married. He had a circus of Baboons and Zebra. He himself was an accomplished trapeeze artist, jugler and an all round showman. He was also a pioneer of the parachute and undertook daredevil jumps from gas filled balloons all over the world. I have more information so please get in touch. kind regards

http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.grais/1.1.1.1/mb.ashx

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Furthermore, the zebra's "V" shape at the front looks the same

Ignore the fact that all this lot have a "V" shape, the two pictures I've posted look like an almost identical "V" shape

 

[editor]

Doesn't the pattern on the zebra's forehead look a bit different?

Comparison. The one on the left looks like this <> while the other one looks like an inverted Y.

 

[quimcunx]

Too hard to call I'd say.

Either way it seems like there were a few of them about.


Bring back the London Zebra!!!!!

 

[editor]

Who'd have thought we'd be discussing zebra markings in the Brixton forum

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Sorry about the big picture, was just trying to show you zebra stripes

 

[quimcunx]

Where are we going to purloin the urban75 zebra from?

There are still stables in Brixton. We can have a whip round.

 

[Orang Utan]

are there any other exotic creatures housed in brixton? doesn't someone have a monkey? or did dream that?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Doesn't the pattern on the zebra's forehead look a bit different?

Comparison. The one on the left looks like this <> while the other one looks like an inverted Y.

Maybe



























erm, it was a strap or something

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Too hard to call I'd say.

Either way it seems like there were a few of them about.


Bring back the London Zebra!!!!!

I think we should name her. Now, what are female zebra often called?

 

[quimcunx]

I think we should name her. Now, what are female zebra often called?

I don't know but there used to be a female called Zebra lived in my village.

 

[Orang Utan]

stripey

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Minnie you are the googlemeister.


You should change your tagline.

I didn't find it on Google. Useless piece of shit. I looked in the place I should have looked first.

Actually, I'm more impressed with my dating of the first picture and hemlines considering I know sod all about fashion

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I don't know but there used to be a female called Zebra lived in my village.

I think you'll find a lot of them are called something else, 4 letters

 

[quimcunx]

Mare.


Boring.

 

[ajdown]

Is that when they started this current set of roadworks...?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Mare.


Boring.

ahem

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Is that when they started this current set of roadworks...?

Yes, that's them digging up to make more road space and taking away the extra pavement that they've now given back

Don't worry, it'll be finished by next year, 2 years under the estimated completion time of 100 years

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Philanderer

Hi Laurie,
I'm not sure if there is any connection here but my son is the great grandson of Gustav Grais who lived in London for sometime until his death. I have found out that he had other children from another relationship. He appeared to have two families living just a few miles away from each other. I just wonder if there may be any link there. I look forward to hearing from you

 

[quimcunx]

Zena is a good name for an animal.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Zena is a good name for an animal.

What number's your flat?

 

[paolo]

Tangent: Are zebras just stripey horses, or are they different in other ways?

 

[London_Calling]

Wiki reckons:

Zebras were the second lineage to diverge from the earliest proto-horses, after the asses, around 4 million years ago.

Insert your own punchline.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Zonkey

 

[paolo]

Zonkey

awww

 

[lozenge]

awww

surely you mean "eeee-awww"

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Minnie

Well done for your persistent research. I understand that the experts who date photographs do it from the dress of the people depicted. Apparently they can be very accurate to within a few months as fashion was as fickle then as it is now, with those who could afford it.

Somewhere is a website reporting on the particular fashion aspects of the specific years of the Victorian and Edwardian era.

Guess what? I didn't bookmark it when I found it two or three years ago.



I will let you do all the hard work now.