Was there ever a zoo in Blackpool Tower?
Amina Stehr
2025-04-18 12:20:10
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The tower’s attractions have drawn millions of visitors in through the decades - to the ballroom, circus, aquariam, zoo and its menagerie. Blackpool Tower aviary and menagerie. The tower's attractions include the ballroom, circus, aquarium, zoo, and menagerie is not repeated but it is confirmed in the Blackpool Tower aviary and menagerie picture.
Magnolia Graham
2025-04-18 11:53:29
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An aquarium and a zoo were also part of the attraction. The zoo and aquarium are no longer part of the complex, having been replaced by other attractions, including a restaurant and a theme park. Blackpool Tower, tourist attraction and regional landmark in the seaside resort town of Blackpool, Lancashire, England, U.K. The tower, which opened in 1894, had the great advantage of providing vacationers with something to do when it rained, and it was an immediate hit, with thousands of visitors paying to ride elevators to the viewing platform at the top of the tower. A ballroom, initially called the Tower Pavilion and now the Tower Ballroom, opened also in 1894 at the base of the tower, and a circus was tucked between its legs.
Cortez Schiller
2025-04-18 09:39:25
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Amongst the many esteemed invited guests, which included 27 mayors and their ladies, was ‘The Manager of The Aquarium and Lady’, Mr and Mrs J Walmsley. James Walmsley, known to all as Jim, was the manager of The Aquarium, Aviary and Menagerie which had been created by Dr W H Cocker in 1874. Within Blackpool Tower the Walmsley rooms were adjacent to the menagerie and monkey house on the first floor. The original Aquarium, Aviary and Menagerie next to the Tower in 1893. Newspaper advertising at the time described The Tower Aquarium, Aviary and Menagerie as ‘The Finest Show of Animals in the United Kingdom’, a claim probably not far from the truth and undoubtedly due in no small part to Jim Walmsley’s dedication. The menagerie where Jim Walmsley had ‘tended to the animals as though they were his own children’ would close in 1973 following the opening of Blackpool Zoo, preceded by the closure of the aviary. The old aquarium would last until 2010.
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