Back in the 1970s a dog breeder who loved English Bulldogs, but regretted what the dog show establishment had done to the breed in terms of reducing their functionality and overall health, not to mention distorting their original appearance, decided to attempt to reproduce the English Bulldog of the late 19th Century. One of my dogs is a product of that effort, and I think he got pretty close.

This was the English Bulldog type he was going for (picture taken in the late 19th Century):

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Here are a couple of pictures of my dog.

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