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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          SUP/5/1/3/18 · Unidad documental compuesta · 1947
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          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,

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          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

          High Commissioner of South Africa
          SUP/6/1/1/50 · Unidad documental compuesta · 1949
          Parte de 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

          Tong, E H
          SUP/6/1/1/108 · Unidad documental compuesta · 1949
          Parte de Superintendents

          Correspondence between E H Tong and George Soper Cansdale regarding matters at Whipsnade, including causes of deaths of animals, animal record cards, the Canadian Department of Mines and Resources, the acquisition of animals, and animals on deposit from Germany

          Whitehead, G Kenneth
          SUP/6/1/1/118 · Unidad documental compuesta · 1949
          Parte de Superintendents

          Correspondence between G Kenneth Whitehead and George Soper Cansdale regarding the stock of Muntjac at London and Whipsnade Zoos

          Secretary for Agriculture, South Africa
          SUP/6/1/2/57 · Unidad documental compuesta · 1950
          Parte de Superintendents

          Correspondence between the Secretary of Agriculture in South Africa and George Soper Cansdale regarding Afrikaner Cattle for Whipsnade

          Correspondence with Alan Francis Brooke
          PRE/5/2 · Unidad documental compuesta · 1952
          Parte de ZSL Presidents

          Correspondence between Alan Francis Brooke and Officers of the Zoological Society of London regarding minutes of the Secretaryship Committee, Scientific Meetings, action taken by the Society on the occasion of the death of the Sovereign, the opening of the new boiler house, Council Meetings, the Garden Party at Whipsnade and Ordinary General Meetings