In 1837 the 85 feet long skeleton of a whale, found dead off Plymouth in 1831, on tour round the country in four large caravans, was brought to Liverpool and exhibited in Queens Square. According to the Liverpool Standard it was visited "by a great number of the most respectable families of the town and neighbourhood who, without exception, declared it to be the most interesting exhibition that they have ever witnessed'. The Liverpool Mail noted that within the huge mouth of the Whale it was possible to accommodate 'one hundred and fifty two tender juveniles of the infant school at one time'.
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https://www.liverpoolpicturebook.com/2013/10/queen-square-history.html [accessed 22May20]