Entries for the tag ‘Armley Hippo’
Previously known as the Leeds Hippopotamus: the greater part of the fossil skeleton of a great northern hippopotamus, as much as 130,000 years old, some of which is on display at Leeds City Museum. 
- 3 April 1852: Brickfield workers from Wortley (Leeds) bring Henry Denny, curator of the Leeds Museum, some huge “unchristian” bones
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