Bear Pit Board Sources:

Christopher Plumb, ‘The Georgian Menagerie: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century London’ (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015)

City of Sheffield Recreation Department, “The Botanical Gardens: A brief history” (1969-1970)

Hunter and King, ‘Sheffield Botanical Gardens: A History’ (vol.1 2017)

Hunter, ‘Sheffield Botanical Gardens: A History (1844-1855)’ (vol. 2 2019)

Julia Armstrong, ‘Bears Once Lived in Sheffield Botanical Gardens- but they didn’t kill a child’ (Thursday 16th July 2020, The Star Online) https://www.thestar.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/retro/bears-once-lived-in-sheffield-botanical-gardens-but-they-didnt-kill-a-child-2915608 Accessed 6 Jul. 2022.

Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 19th February 1859 

Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 24th March 1932

Woudstra, Jan. “Robert Marnock and the Creation of the Sheffield Botanical and Horticultural Gardens, 1834-40.” (Garden History, vol. 35, no. 1, 2007), pp. 2–36. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25472352  Accessed 2 Jul. 2022.