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SYMHC Classics: Walter Potter's Wild and Wonderful Taxidermy

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The Lonely Lion

Walter collins was struck down as a very young man. He continued to mount his entire life until he died in 19 18. His museum was left to his daughter, minnie collins, and his grandson,. altert, also named walter, but his last name was collins. They were the curators of the museum until the 19 seventies when they couldn't handle it any more. It got moved first to arundel, and then in the 19 eighties, it went to the jamaica inn in cornwall. Those people hung on to it until two thousand three, and they decided to liquidate the collection because their curator had died, or had retired

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