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During the 19th century...
The mobile zoo annually visited Glasgow for two weeks during the Fair in July. The pupils from Heriot’s sneaked over the school wall to visit the show when the menagerie arrived in the Grassmarket during the festive season. The time-gun is sure to have startled the animals when it fired from the Half Moon Battery at one o' clock. Edinburgh also had a zoo which was situated in Broughton Park near Claremont Street in the New Town. The zoo closed in 1867, the year in which the Lord Provost purchased Greyfriars Bobby’s licence. The photograph shows the mobile zoo's frontage or 'walk-up' when Wombwells visited Worthing in September 1853. Photograph courtesy of Valerie Martin www.findonvillage.com |
During the 19th century, Wombwell’s Travelling Menageries travelled all over Britain.
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