X is for X MARKS THE SPOT

Dear old Jock, Rival and Nasty are just some of the
terriers commemorated on stone grave markers outside
the Museum's J.O Thomas building.

        Most of them were alive at the time of George
          Llewellen Palmer's ownership of the Lackham estate
            and many of them met a grisly fate, two of them for
              example being killed whilst badger digging and another
                is recorded as having killed a cat caught in a trap!

One horse dear to the family was Spider King. Embedded
in his headstone is one of his horseshoes. The poor
animal fell and fractured his shoulder in a point to point race and
had to be destroyed. In the past, the headstones would
have been situated in the woodland, so although they have
been re-located to the Museum, the bodies of the
animals have been left in peace.