Rare Footage of Wellingborough Zoo the year before it closed
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- This is Wellingborough Zoo Park in 1969, the year before it was closed due to pressure from the RSPCA - the cages were dirty, old and inadequate. This film was passed to me from another local RUclipsr. I met with Dave Green (Station SixtySeven) at the little R'ale house at Wellingborough station to take notes and get his account on this video. He states "In the film are my Mum and Dad, their friend Sue and her child Ian. My sister and me also appear, I'm the tot in the brown hooded coat feeding the black swans. Mum is the lady handling the fox. The fox was called 'Vulpe Vulpe' (the Latin name for foxes) and lived in a run at home with us. He was later released into the wild at Salcey Forest. The film was shot by Mick Allen at the request of my Mum and Dad".
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I was 7 years old when I visited the zoo at wellingborough , even as a child I was aware this was not a good enviroment for animals.
Great footage, thanks for posting.
My mum used to take me there, sadly now I find it quite heartbreaking that we caged these animals in this way, you can tell they are unhappy. Made me weep a little.
Thankyou Purple, It became a sad place, but gave much pleasure to the children growing up in the dreary days after the war,😀
Glad you enjoyed it
1969 my birth year. I feel so old. Nice i love animals.
I remembered this as a place of sadness all those years ago and this film just confirms that.
Yh it wasn't good by the end of it. Mr Stevens The Zoo keeper was really struggling by the end of its time. When it was good it was epic. But by the 60's it was done in my eyes.
Hi purple, I'm glad the zoo is no longer there. Protect the animals in their natural habitat. I went down the gardens last week and Brook was full of plastic bottles. went to kotch yesterday and couldn't find any rubbish anywhere😊also I received a message that Chester house irchester is getting 2 new iron bridges start date this June, to be built over the nene.
I know exactly where your coming from the place was so ran down. Now I haven't been to the Kotch for some time so I wouldn't know the state of it. But I do know the community is solid down the Kotch and in good hands.
Aw, cheers matey, you've done wonders bringing the brightness back. Also, the music is bang on the mark mate. Big thanks! :)
Thank you for allowing me to show everybody. True legend
Don't you just wish you could just go back time to see what you want to see back in the day
purple you are such a nice friendly happy gentle man. if you ever want to come to cambridgeshire for some kayaking fishing an wild camping id be more then welcome to take you round the great river ouse.
Thanks for putting this up purple, I remember it closing. Music fits the memory very well!.
Thank you Paul. The video came with no audio what so ever. Which I believe is why the owner of the original gave me permission to give it my all
I never have seen any other footage if it. I have some 8mm colour film of the zoo, spalding parade etc. Nice to see what wellingborough zoo was like back in the day
Glad you enjoyed it
Remember this zoo so well. Couldn't understand why the Polar Bear just stood on the spot, swaying from side to side, all day
Forgot to say, back in the 90s I worked with a chap at Higham Ferrers that used to work at the abattoir, he said he was responsible for "dispatching" the tiger from wellingborough zoo as it was too old to be moved elsewhere.
Now thats golden information. Thanks for that Keith
I wonder where all the animals were taken, when the zoo had to close!?
The polar bear ended up at Ditchford Chettles sadly but the rest ended up the other side of Peterborough at another zoo.
This is an amazing video Purple. Sad to see those animals in cages back when people didn't know much better but an amazing look at Wellingborough history. So impressed you managed to find that and put it together.
I'd love to see a top down map of how the zoo used to look. Have you ever seen something like that?
Sorry, but people did know better, anyone with empathy knows that being locked inside a cage isn't nice.
If nobody didn't know better, then they would still be open.
No but I was thinking of filming each area and adding the old footage to each part for now and then. I have 3 old clips now
Must have been noisy for the locals living near but nice to take the children for the time. Glad that we care better now about animals welfare. 😃
Absolutely but as for the noise. I believe the trees would have created a sort of barrier which decreased the noise level.
Such a great video, nice one fella. :)
Thank you Paul. The video came with no audio so I seized the moment with some glorious chillstep
crazy to see this because my mum alwase told me about the zoo (she diddnt go there though she wasnt even born when it was closed)but now its a park but good thing no more animals are getting harmed though.
Yh that's it. The animals were in a bad way by the end of it.
@@PurpleVision23 poor babies 😥😥
Amazing !!
Thank you Rachel, so are you
Awesome purple
Thanks Mike
Excellent video
Yh not bad eh. Thanks for Watching
@@PurpleVision23 yh indeed. Np
went as a kid.
Awesome. I never got to see it but I have a brilliant imagination thanks to people telling me their stories. Best one was the monkey lived in the main house and a viewer said that he was doing some work on the house and the monkey kept stealing his tools 😂
Hi Dave you cant make that up. remember the chimps tea parties too. when i go to croyland gardens now it all seems too small to cram all those animals and birds in. The tea room was great on sheep street too, next door and the fish and chips at the bottom of the road was the best including masses of scrumps. the odd bits of batter.
The man you didn't now is bill lucken he was my uncle
Ah sweet thanks for that. I'll jot it in the file
So so sad,
Rabbits can still be seen there. Amongst cray fish, and rubbish..
No respect for animals still lives strong in this park.
Very good point. Council poisoned the squirrels too
@@PurpleVision23 But as we've seen,the rats and pigeons are thriving ;)
@Station SixtySeven it's because of the rat poison the squirrels snuffed it
@@PurpleVision23 'collateral damage' I suppose. Poison is such an indiscriminate method of pest control.
What happened to "don't feed the animals"
Couldn't the Zoo afford to feed them? Even a bad diet?
No bud you have it all wrong. The family who had this video made where the zoo keepers
@@PurpleVision23 o.k Got it.
the animals seemed to be cared for but not by todays standards. monkey world and the wildlife parks taken over. Even Bristol Zoo is closing soon.
We are losing quite a lot in this country but maybe it's the best for these types of Zoos. Thanks for commenting Caroline