Glasgow Zoo - a history in photographs
Compiled by Roger Edwards, Special Projects Officer, Glasgow Zoopark. December
2000
Interpreting old photographs can be a challenge, ever more difficult as the
years go by and fewer people are around who witnessed the events and
personalities concerned. Many of the photographs in this collection were the
subject of a discussion in July 1987 when a dictaphone was used to record some
comments on them, from which a typed manuscript was prepared.
In this current exercise to digitise these images, recourse has been made to
annual reports
and contemporary press coverage to establish dates and names. As so often is
the case, some of these pictures were not dated and labelled when first
produced, but sufficient were to provide a clear chronology.
1.
The founding of the Zoological Society
, 15th December 1936, and its early years
2.
Preparing the new zoo
3.
Cutting the first turf
, 31th May 1946
4.
Constructing the new zoo
5.
The official opening of the zoo, 9th July 1947
6.
The early years - to 1960
7.
The 1960s
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