The Ghost of Jamrach’s Tiger by Leanne Moden Poet published on 2024-02-01T13:51:50Z Every February (since 2012) four poets take to the internet to write 28 poems across 28 days. This year, our sonnets are about famous sevens. Tower Hamlets Cemetery is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries. It is located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and was originally consecrated in 1841. One of the cemetery’s more famous ‘residents’ is Charles Jamrach, a Victorian menagerie keeper and exotic animal exporter. In 1857, one of Jamrach’s Bengal tigers escaped his menagerie and stalked through London, almost killing a nine-year-old boy.
