Did there used to be a zoo in Blackpool Tower?
Annabel Green
2025-05-12 22:56:16
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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. 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.
Lupe Lehner
2025-04-30 04:00:29
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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. I go back through photos to when Blackpool Tower had an aquarium and a zoo - as well as more recent scenes. Blackpool Tower is the town’s most iconic feature and there are thousands of pictures of it in our archives. It is the most photographed structure in our town since it was opened to the world in 1894.
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