Goat on the Tube
Photo: TfL
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It's Chinese New Year, and the Year of the Goat (or Sheep!) has arrived. But these photos prove that our caprine friends have been Londoners all along
The Chinese Year of the Sheep has arrived! Or has it? It's actually the year of the 'horned animal', which could mean goat, ram or sheep. To mark this confusing occasion we've rounded up all our favourite photos of the animals in London, from pubs to sculptures and actual live beasts. Gong Hey Fat Choy!
A 1931 photo of sheep being herded from Hyde Park to Green Park - they were used to keep the grass trim in summer until 1935.
Photo: Leonard Bentley
Photo: John Kortland
Goats graze the wildflower meadow of Queen Elizabeth Hall's roof gardens in summer 2013.
Photo: Stuart Sunley
Q: How do shepherds say goodbye to sheep?
A: Shear later!
This is the Lambeth Country Show, which takes place in Brockwell Park each summer.
Photo: Michael Goldrei
Decorations, dragons, music and dancing are about to take over Chinatown.
Concrete, polo-neck jumpers and even more concrete - check out the Barbican's construction site in the late ‘70s
Derek Ridgers explores the 'fabulous strangeness of the human animal' in his photographs of London's nightlife
Libraries, bus garages and other civic necessities that have absolutely no business being as fit as they are
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