A rather strange historical marker located in Southwark on Park Street which is on the Eastern boundary of Borough Market. It recalls the attack by draymen of the Barclay & Perkins brewery (at the time the largest in the world) on General Haynau, an Austrian noble man who commanded troops against Napoleon and the Italians between 1813 and 1847. Haynau was said to have a violent temper and suppressed insurrections in both Italy and Vienna with brutal force. In 1864 he visited London and while walking down Borough High Street several draymen from the nearby brewery recognised him and set about throwing dung and mud at the General, chasing him along the street shouting "down with the Austrian butcher", Haynau narrowly escaped the mob violence never to return to London.
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