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Dick Whittington's cat

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See Dick Whittington. The picture is the charming logo adopted by the Whittington Hospital on Highgate Hill.

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Dick Whittington's cat

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Dick Whittington and his cat - Highgate

British History Online (1878) says that in about 1795 "the original stone, be...

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