Bob Wellings and the Castlebar Road elephant
I was very sad to hear that Bob Wellings the former Anglia TV presenter died this week. He used to live in the area and was responsible for what may or may not be Ealing's most famous urban myth — that a circus elephant is buried under Castlebar Road.
I've heard various versions of the story but the most commonly told is that the animal died when the circus came to town at the end of the nineteenth century and it was easier to bury the animal near where it died as it was impractical to cart it away.
Maybe with Bob's passing we'll never know the truth of the story.
Gordon Southwell ● 1280d4 Comments