Visits to zoos that don't exist anymore

I’ll show my age with some of these, all U.K.:
Norfolk Wildlife Park
Cricket St Thomas WP
Cromer Zoo
Cromer Birdland
Living Coasts
Aquazoo, Great Yarmouth
Rode Tropical Bird Gardens
Merley Bird Gardens
Kelling Park Aviaries
Lowther Wildlife Park
Norton Bird Gardens
 
Norfolk Wildlife Park
Cricket St Thomas
Cromer
Rode
Peakirk
Cardiff Zoo, Barry
Morecambe Marineland
Stagsden
Bourton on the Water
West bury on Trim
and Morecambe Winged World
at least.
 
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Norfolk Wildlife Park.
Bideford Zoo.
Ilfracombe Zoo ( I believe)
Pine Valley Okehampton
Ferndown Zoo.
Poole Park Zoo.
Exmouth Zoo.
Plymouth Zoo(Chipperfields)
Weyhill(as wildlife park)
Cricket St Thomas.
Southampton Zoo.
BelleVue Zoo.(Manchester)
Southam Zoo.
Westbury on Trim.
Rode Bird Garden.
Padstow Bird Garden
Bourton on the Water (original)
Glasgow.
Cardiff/Barry
Merley Bird Garden.
Living Coasts( seen from outside!)
Heathfield Sussex( can't remember name)
Windsor Safari Park
Newquay Zoo(original)

One I regret not doing was Southport.
 
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FBBird said:
Ok, I forgot Stagsden, Southport, Southampton, Peakirk and Birdland original site
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Poole Park zoo
Poole Aquarium
Robin Hill, iow
Kilverstone (biggest loss!)
Exotic zoo
Mole Hall
Beaver waterworld (no loss!)
Ventura
Living Coasts (big loss)
Clacton pier dolpinarium
Merley bird garden
Maybe more
 
Windsor Safari Park
Rare Species Conservation Centre
Ventura Zoo
Living Coasts
 
pipaluk said:
Poole Park zoo
Poole Aquarium
Robin Hill, iow
Kilverstone (biggest loss!)
Exotic zoo
Mole Hall
Beaver waterworld (no loss!)
Ventura
Living Coasts (big loss)
Clacton pier dolpinarium
Merley bird garden
Maybe more
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Forgot RSCC
 
An updated list of closed UK animal collections that I've visited:-
  • Cliftonville Aquarium and Mini-Zoo
  • Cricket St. Thomas
  • Gatwick Zoo
  • Glasgow Zoo
  • Ilfracombe Zoo
  • Kilverstone
  • Leeds Castle Aviaries
  • Living Coasts
  • Margate Dolphinarium
  • Margate (Dreamland)
  • Merley Bird Gardens
  • Mole Hall
  • Olney
  • Palm Bay Aquarium (near Margate)
  • Peakirk (Wildfowl Trust)
  • Poole Aquarium & Serpentarium
  • Poole Park Zoo
  • Ramsgate
  • Rare Species Conservation Centre
  • Robin Hill (Isle of Wight)
  • Rode Bird Gardens
  • Southampton Zoo
  • Southend Aquarium (not the SeaLife Centre)
  • Southend (Peter Pan’s Playground)
  • Stagsden Bird Gardens
  • Tenby Zoo (St. Catherine’s Island)
  • Ventura
  • Windsor Safari Park
Of these, I consider Kilverstone and the Rare Species Conservation Centre very great losses; I miss both enormously.

And how sad it will be to add Bristol Zoo to this list.in the near future.

Incidentally I very much regret that I never visited Belle Vue (Manchester) before it closed.
 
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Tetzoo Quizzer said:
Norfolk Wildlife Park
Cricket St Thomas
Cromer
Rode
Peakirk
Cardiff Zoo, Barry
Morecambe Marineland
Stagsden
Bourton on the Water
West bury on Trim
and Morecambe Winged World
at least.
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What was at Westbury on Trim? Was it the W o T in Bristol and what was there?
 
I don’t remember much about it; yes it was the Bristol WoT, and it was a small British/European collection. I do have a recollection of trying to revisit it but being unable to, which suggests it was reasonable in that I wished to go back. No other details I am afraid. Also mentioned by Pertinax on page 1 of the thread...
 
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Tim May said:
Incidentally I very much regret that I never visited Belle Vue (Manchester) before it closed.
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Out of them all that is the one I'm most pleased to have visited, several times in fact and can still remember parts of it quite well. A major urban zoo and collection compared to a lot of the other closed ones.
 
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I don’t remember much about it; yes it was the Bristol WoT, and it was a small British/European collection. I do have a recollection of trying to revisit it but being unable to, which suggests it was reasonable in that I wished to go back. No other details I am afraid. Also mentioned by Pertinax on page 1 of the thread...
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The only thing I can remember clearly from Westbury on Trim was a tame three-legged Red Deer hind that had been damaged in a threshing accident as a calf. There's at least one multi-postcard from Westbury that should show a few of the species they had but yes it was British/European mainly.
 
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