Whipsnade Zoo

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  • Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell (ZSL Secretary 1903-1935) was inspired by a visit to the Bronx Zoological Park to create a park in Britain as a conservation centre. Hall Farm, a derelict farm on the Dunstable Downs, 30 miles (48 km) to the north of London was purchased by the Zoological Society of London in 1926 for £13,480 12s 10d, The site was fenced, roads built and trees planted. The first animals arrived at the park in 1928, including two Lady Amherst's pheasants, a golden pheasant and five red junglefowl. Others soon followed, including muntjac, llama, wombats and skunks. Whipsnade Park Zoo opened on Sunday 23 May 1931. It was the first open zoo in Europe to be easily accessible to the visiting public. The collection of animals was boosted in 1932 by the purchase of a collection from a defunct travelling menagerie and some of the larger animals walked to the zoo from Dunstable station. During the Second World War, the zoo acted as a refuge for animals evacuated from London Zoo. During 1940, 41 bombs fell on the park with little damage to the zoo structure. Some of the ponds in the park are the remains of bomb craters from this period.

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          Van-Praag, S E
          SUP/5/1/2/227 · Unidad documental compuesta · 1946
          Parte de Superintendents

          Correspondence with Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding an article written by S E Van-Praag on Whipsnade for the journal Zoo Life
          Samuel McGredy and Son
          SUP/5/1/3/33 · Unidad documental compuesta · 1947
          Parte de Superintendents

          Correspondence between Samuel McGredy and Son and Geoffrey Marr Vevers, and plans regarding the planting of roses at Whipsnade
          Whipsnade (E H Tong)
          SUP/5/1/4/30 · Unidad documental compuesta · 1948
          Parte de Superintendents

          Correspondence between E H Tong and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a Road Fund Licence, a water softening plant at Whipsnade, suggestions for improvements at Whipsnade, a train accident, rules regarding the admission of children, and lists of shrubs
          Pittman, Captain C R S
          CUR/7/3/18 · Unidad documental compuesta · 1949
          Parte de Curators and Keepers

          Correspondence with Captain C R S Pittman regarding the establishment of a herd of Watussi Cattle at Whipsnade
          Beach, A
          SUP/5/1/2/21 · Unidad documental compuesta · 1946
          Parte de Superintendents

          Letter regarding a poster for the Railways and a request for one or more posters to be exhibited at London and Whipsnade Zoos
          British Museum (Natural History)
          SUP/5/1/2/36 · Unidad documental compuesta · 1946
          Parte de Superintendents

          Correspondence between British Museum (Natural History) and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding a report of a Black-Headed Gull to the Bird-Ringing Committee at the British Museum of Natural History, articles on Okapi by Reginald Innes Pocock, an account of the baby Dendrohyrax by Cecil Stanley Webb , Antarctic Seals, skins and skulls of small carnivores, the fox which the Zoological Society of London received from Tel Aviv Gardens, an exhibition of Tree Hyraxes, exhibits for Major Cottam, donations of specimens to the British Museum (Natural History), mongoose skins, Tangier Smith's location in Sze Chuan to locate the original Pandas, the release of Kodiak Bears at Whipsnade Zoo, publications by Doubleday on the Giant Panda, rings for a Golden Eagle from the Bird-Ringing Committee, the species of Monkey from Northern Nigeria, a Leopard from the Himalayas, measurements of the Kodiak Bears called Kam and Schatka at Whipsnade, and a donation of Hedgehogs to the USA