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    Quote Originally Posted by Max
    Why can't the biological sciences make a potion that can make me as big as a silver back gorilla then?
    Dunno Max - I'm not a scientist. My qualifications are in Sociology and Public Administration.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Scousemouse
    Hi Miss St H,

    Could this be what your'e thinking of?

    RICE LANE CITY FARM

    Comprising 224 acres of countryside, 11 of which are managed woodland.
    A variety of rare breed farm animals are kept, including farm breeds of pigs, red poll cattle, Ryeland award-winning sheep as well as various goats, ponies and poultry.
    Admission is free although donations are welcome. The farm also offers guided walks and talks, which must be booked in advance.
    This historic site is also the resting place of Robert Tressel, author of 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist', Edgar Allen Poe's illustrator James Carling and a number of pirates!

    Rice Lane City Farm
    No. 2 Lodge, Walton Park Cemetery
    Walton, Liverpool
    Merseyside
    L9 1AW
    Tel: 0151 530 1066

    Or alternatively, there used to be a kid's 'zoo' at the Walton Hall Avenue end of the estate (when it was a park). But again that had sheep, goats and the like. That was around fifty years ago!
    no i know rice lane farm, this is directly ooposite walton hospital and had bigger animals, lions and tigers and bears oh my!
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    There was a zoo in Kensington on Butler Street.
    Butler Street school (now New Park) was built on that site in Victorian times.

    A relative of mine remembers when the gorilla escaped and had to be shot

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    Stumbled across this strange picture and caption in the depths of the BBC's website:


    This motorist found himself in trouble in his Hillman Minx. Help was at hand when Monica, the elephant at Liverpool Zoo, was drafted in to help.

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    Quote Originally Posted by miss st helens
    Is it true that liverpool had a zoo? apparently its the sainsburys site by walton hospital.
    Response from Dr Hannah O'Regan at LJMU:

    Hi Howie,

    I don't know of one, but that doesn't mean it wasn't there! The ones I know about were all in Wavertree/Kensington, the city centre and Aigburth way, nothing in the north. But who told you? and do they have any more info? like when it was meant to be there? Most of the info I have is up to the 1930s. I haven't done as much research into the Liverpool zoos as I'd like (in fact very little so far), but I haven't come across any mentions of a Walton zoo (yet).

    Hope that's of help, and any more info would be interesting!

    Hannah.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Howie
    See the photographs of Liverpool from The Black & White Picture Place.
    they are brilliant, i love the inside of the old sailors home, pure class, i always wanted to go in st georges hall and see the dungeons n stuff underground! they dont allow it now do they!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Howie
    Response from Dr Hannah O'Regan at LJMU:

    Hi Howie,

    I don't know of one, but that doesn't mean it wasn't there! The ones I know about were all in Wavertree/Kensington, the city centre and Aigburth way, nothing in the north. But who told you? and do they have any more info? like when it was meant to be there? Most of the info I have is up to the 1930s. I haven't done as much research into the Liverpool zoos as I'd like (in fact very little so far), but I haven't come across any mentions of a Walton zoo (yet).

    Hope that's of help, and any more info would be interesting!

    Hannah.
    hope someone wasnt pulling my chain now, but i was told probably victorian, will double check my source!!!!
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    I heard that there was a zoological gardens in Liverpool in Victorian times. It was up by Gregson's Well - I think it was on those gardens opposite it (can't remember the name) that you could walk through to get to Mill Road Hospital - at the end of West Derby Road, opposite the old Register Office, by the Grafton - you know where I mean. Never heard of one in Walton though.

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    there are still the gates for Liverpool Zoo next to the Plough pub Rice Lane,I think its a florest now

    Mandy

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    Quote Originally Posted by robbo176
    there are still the gates for Liverpool Zoo next to the Plough pub Rice Lane,I think its a florest now

    Mandy
    Pics of those would be great!
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    Quote Originally Posted by kev
    Pics of those would be great!
    yep thats it, between the sainsburys and the princess garden restaraunt, my boyfriend said it goes way back further than victorian, maybe even sixteen hundreds, not sure myself if it is that far back though! interestin to research though eh! cant get picks that far back though eh! maybe sketches?
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    Quote Originally Posted by sweetpatooti
    I heard that there was a zoological gardens in Liverpool in Victorian times. It was up by Gregson's Well - I think it was on those gardens opposite it (can't remember the name) that you could walk through to get to Mill Road Hospital - at the end of West Derby Road, opposite the old Register Office, by the Grafton - you know where I mean. Never heard of one in Walton though.
    I think that was Henglers circus there used to be a pub by the same name on Everton Rd
    the Gardens used to be the Necropolis Cemetery
    Mandy
    Last edited by robbo176; 05-11-2006 at 08:59 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kev
    Pics of those would be great!
    Heres a couple of pics





    Mandy

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    wow! thanks so much the little animals in the stone work....
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