Quote Originally Posted by matt View Post
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
There was a

zoo in Elmswood Road Mossley Hill in the 1930s.
They had a chimpanzee called Mickey.
Mickey escaped many times.
On 23rd March 1938 he escaped for

the last time.
He attacked a child and was shot.

He was the most popular attraction at the zoo and within a year the zoo closed.