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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 (E H Tong)
          SUP/5/1/4/30 · Dossier · 1948
          Fait partie 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
          Visit to Whipsnade Farm
          SEC/9/2/19/10 · Pièce · 20 Nov 1926
          Fait partie de ZSL Secretaries

          Letter and map regarding a visit of the Members of the Council of the Zoological Society of London to inspect Whipsnade Farm on the Ashbridge Estate
          Female Office Staff
          SEC/11/2/2/5 · Pièce · Jun 1942
          Fait partie de ZSL Secretaries

          Report on the application for indefinite deferment of female office staff at Regent's Park and Whipsnade Park
          Tong, E H
          SEC/13/1/138 · Dossier · 1963
          Fait partie de 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