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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          Whipsnade Zoo plans
          ARC/11/1 · Sub-series · 1957-1961, 1996
          Part of Architecture and buildings

          Drawings showing the design, layout and details of several buildings built 1957-1961 at the entrance to Whipsnade Zoo (16 items). Map and plan of Whipsnade, 1996 (2 items).

          Duke of Bedford
          SUP/5/1/3/18 · Bestanddeel · 1947
          Part of Superintendents

          Correspondence between the Duke of Bedford and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding getting European Bison from Poland, the Curator of the New York Zoological Society sending White-tailed deer to the Zoological Society of London, an offer of Chartley Cattle and Soay Sheep by the Duke of Bedford, a specimen of the under-coat of the Pere David's deer, the early history of Pere David's deer, an Indian Rhino being brought from Calcutta by ZSL Overseer L M Flewin, Wisent bulls in Stockholm, the rearing of Pere David's deer at Whipsnade, an exchange of Parakeets, and the importation of Pere David's deer to Australia,

          Samuel McGredy and Son
          SUP/5/1/3/33 · Bestanddeel · 1947
          Part of 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 · Bestanddeel · 1948
          Part of 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

          SUP/6/1/1/50 · Bestanddeel · 1949
          Part of Superintendents

          Correspondence between the High Commissioner of South Africa and George Soper Cansdale regarding a request for specimens of the big horned Afrikander humped cattle to establish a herd at Whipsnade

          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

          Stevens, Howard J
          SUP/5/1/2/204 · Bestanddeel · 1946
          Part of Superintendents

          Correspondence between Howard J Stevens and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding the transport of a male Llama, Nylghaie, Dingos and Husky puppies to Whipsnade, and the offer to let J Howard Stevens had a pair of Bear Cubs

          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

          Turner, Sydney
          SUP/5/1/2/215 · Bestanddeel · 1946
          Part of Superintendents

          Correspondence between Sydney Turner and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding supplies of Ilex for Okapi and the Wild Turkeys at Whipsnade to be sent to Holkham Park