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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          279 Archivistische beschrijving results for Whipsnade Zoo

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          Cox & Danks Ltd
          SUP/5/1/2/73 · Bestanddeel · 1946
          Part of Superintendents

          Correspondence between Cox & Danks Ltd and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding orders of wire netting for Whipsnade Zoo
          Puddle, W
          SUP/5/1/2/182 · Stuk · 1946
          Part of Superintendents

          Letter regarding a decision not to move the wolves at Whipsnade and to cut the tops out of dangerous conifers in the Wolf Wood. Also a list of implements belonging to the Gardening Department at Whipsnade
          Tong, E H
          SUP/5/1/2/213 · Bestanddeel · 1946
          Part of Superintendents

          Correspondence between E H Tong and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the offer of the Council of the Zoological Society of London on the appointment of Superintendent at Whipsnade Park
          Van-Praag, S E
          SUP/5/1/2/227 · Bestanddeel · 1946
          Part of Superintendents

          Correspondence with Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding an article written by S E Van-Praag on Whipsnade for the journal Zoo Life
          Tong, E H
          SEC/13/1/138 · Bestanddeel · 1963
          Part of ZSL Secretaries

          Letter from E H Tong regarding snow drifts at Whipsnade, the arrival of a female Pygmy Hippo presented to The Queen, and a parasite that had been causing trouble in the Grevy's Zebra