Basic info

Collection

Photographs

Title

Pat the Giant

Object name

Black and white print

Object category

Photographic print

Working life

Creators

Unknown (Photographer)

Description

Black and white photograph of Peter Richardson with Pat the Giant a prize winning bull. Pat the Giant, Irish Bullock, hoof made into a inkwell, mounted on a piece of mahogany. Born in 1910 raised at Stamford Bridge, hailed as 'The Heaviest Ox on Record'. Weighing 1 1/2 tons, measuring nine feet six inches from horns to rump, five feet ten inches tall. Killed in 1915 and dressed at Thornton Le Clay. This image does not look like others of Pat the Giant in the History File. Also, Pat the Giant died in 1915 so the date '1922' written on the photograph is in doubt. However, the donor of this photograph was the grandson of Peter Richardson. (Melanie Baldwin, July 2010).

Production date start

1922

Period

Between the Wars