Belfast Blackpool Tower Blackpool Zoo Blair Drummond Bristol Bristol, Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm Chessington Chester Cleethorpes Colchester Colwyn Bay Coventry Cricket St. Thomas Dudley Edinburgh Exeter Change Royal Menagerie Flamingoland Glasgow Glasgow, The Scottish Zoo & Variety Circus Glasgow, Wombwells Menagerie No.1 Grimsby Howletts Sherwood Knowsley Lambton Liverpool, Founded by Thomas Atkins Liverpool, Founded by Mr. H.E. Rogers London London, Crystal Palace London, Tower Menagerie Longleat Maidstone Manchester Southport Oxford Paignton Plymouth Port Lympne Sandringham Southampton Twycross Warwick Castle Wellingborough West Midland Whipsnade Windsor Woburn Is there somebody with corrections to this UK list?
There's a picture in the gallery of an old Elephant house in the Welsh hawking centre in Barry, formerly Barry Zoo, so i'm assuming they may have had Elephants.
After many years of searching, I have managed to find information about elephants at the following collections: Aberdeen Zoological Gardens* Belfast Zoological Gardens Bideford Zoo Aston Lower Grounds Menagerie, Birmingham (1880s) Birmingham & Midlands Zoological Gardens (1873-?) Birmingham Zoo Blackpool Tower Menagerie Blackpool Zoo Park Blair Drummond Safari & Leisure Park Bristol Zoo Gardens British Empire Exhibition, London (1924) Paradise Wildlife Park, Broxbourne Butlins Holiday Camp, Ayr Butlins Holiday Camp, Filey Butlins Holiday Camp, Pwllheli Butlins Holiday Camp, Skegness Cardiff Zoo, Barry Causeway Safari Park Cheltenham Zoological Gardens* Chessington World of Adventures Chester Zoo Cleethorpes Marineland and Zoo Colchester Zoo Coventry Zoo Park Cricket St. Thomas Wildlife Park Cromer Zoo Crystal Palace Children's Zoo, London Curraghs Wildlife Park Drayton Manor Park & Zoo Dublin Zoo Dudley Zoo Edinburgh Zoological Gardens (1839-1857) Edinburgh Marine Gardens and Zoological Park (1909-ca.1913) Edinburgh Zoo Flamingo Land, Kirby Misperton Glasgow Zoopark Craigend Castle Zoo The Scottish Zoo and Variety Circus, Glasgow Grimsby Zoological Gardens Guernsey Zoo Halifax Zoo and Amusement Park Heathfield Wildlife Park Howletts Wild Animal Park Hull Zoological Gardens Knaresborough Zoo Knowsley Safari Park Lambton Lion Park Lilleshall Hall Liverpool Zoological Gardens (1832-1863) William Cross' Zoological Gardens, Liverpool (1880s) Liverpool Zoological Park (1932-1938) Llannerch Zoo Park The Royal Menagerie, Chiswick The Exeter 'Change, London The Tower Menagerie, London London Zoo Longleat Safari Park Maidstone Zoo Park Belle Vue Zoo Park, Manchester Manchester Zoological Gardens (1938-1942) Margate Zoological Gardens (1874-ca.1935) Dreamland Safari Zoo, Margate (1969-1979) New Brighton Tower Menagerie (1900-?) Wilkie's Zoo, New Brighton (1950s) Oldham Zoological Gardens Oxford Zoological Gardens Paignton Zoological & Botanical Gardens Plymouth Zoo Port Lympne Wild Animal Park Preston Zoological Gardens Rosherville Gardens Isle of Wight Zoo, Sandown Scarborough Zoo and Marineland Sherwood Zoo, Hucknall Skegness Zoological Gardens Southampton Zoo Southend Zoo Southport Zoo Southport Zoological Gardens (ca.1906-?) Southport Winter Gardens (ca.1910-ca.1913) Stanley Zoo Surrey Zoological Gardens Thorney Wildlife Park Twycross Zoo Wellingborough Zoopark The Welsh Mountain Zoo West Midland Safari & Leisure Park Whipsnade Wild Animal Park Windsor Safari Park Woburn Safari Park * the animal(s) may never have arrived
Hi there was an Elephant shown arriving at Bideford Zoo ... Although the Zoo was officially listed as closed in early 1970 I have seen reports that the Zoo changed hands and continued to run until 1972 .... but has anyone any idea who ran the zoo until then ?
This "baby elephant" was mentioned in the Nov/Dec 1972 issue of the National Zoological Society's newsletter. I'd love to know when Bideford actually closed.
My aim is to try and find out what happened here... I have a few lines of enquiry going on and one day I will make a breakthrough.... sounds like a detective sleuth.... I know there is an archive held in Bideford Library and when I am next off from work on a weekday I am going to take a trip up there to see what is in the archive....My only other port of call is the local Bideford archive newspapers and as I am less than an hour away from Bideford that is another trek I need to make... after all what better way to pass a day or two than to read old newspapers one after another.... I mean how hard can it be ...lol