Wasn't the original owner of 10 Downing Street a Mr. Chicken?

( Smash Monkey 2 Cannot actually train spiders, Sun 5 Jul 2026, 7:16, archived)

omfg omfg it's TRUE!!!!
so happy to know this tysm
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3LrMh99XJ1Xsh7GtrvH1s8H/10-surprising-facts-about-number-10-downing-street
( vladimir, Sun 5 Jul 2026, 11:42, archived)

How pleasing that it's fact number ten there

( vladimir, Sun 5 Jul 2026, 11:43, archived)

Additional bird link in that
Sir George Downing who commissioned the houses to be built used Sir Christopher Wren
( vladimir, Sun 5 Jul 2026, 11:46, archived)

Could be one of those wildly pompous self-satisfied questions on something robert robinson would have hosted on the wireless. Where might a Wren and a Chicken be safe from a cat - NOW, Mister Smith -
( vladimir, Sun 5 Jul 2026, 11:50, archived)