Continue further and London Zoo is on the right. Across the bridge over Regent’s Canal and over the road walking on you come to Primrose Hill. There’s another cafe here and toilets. It’s worth doing a detour here to look at the houses. There are blue plaques for Sylvia Plath and...
Due to these escapes and a few other incidents which happened under the care of Alfred Cop, the Tower of London Menagerie finally closed in 1832 and the remaining animals were transferred to the newly built London Zoo in Regent's Park. Jamrach’s tiger at Tobacco Dock (1857) Statue of Jam...
in the old, listed, elephant building and the farmyard animals in the petting zoo. It’s an enormous area of grass and gardens, take the kids for a runaround, to feed the ducks, or for a rowing boat ride on the lake. It is beautiful in autumn when the leaves are turning. There...
•ZSL London Zoo is calling for volunteers to help assist visitors as they make their way around the zoo via three new one-way trails.The move, which follows a successful fundraising effort fronted by Sir David Attenborough, is aimed especially at people still furloughed and students forced to...
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Despite early successes, by 1830, the Duke of Wellington, serving as the Constable of the Tower after his successes at the Battle of Waterloo, ordered the closure of the menagerie following a series of escapes and attacks, with many of the animals heading to the new London Zoo. Yeoman ...
Kensal Green Cemetery as designed to resembleParis's Père Lachaise, indeed some people have memorials at both sites (I say 'some' becausee I know of one, so it's likely there are others). Notable famous name graves at Kensal Green are the Brunels, Thackeray, Pinter, Babbage, Rattigan...
Either side of the train track as you leave the station is Rotterdam Zoo – giving passengers glimpses of the animals living there and storks nesting high atop telegraph poles. Arriving at Amsterdam Centraal station Not long after leaving Rotterdam you travel across the flat, never-ending ...
London Zoo, at the north end of Regent's Park, has long delighted school children from the capital and beyond. Animals from many continents are here, including monkeys, lions, tigers, gorillas, Komodo dragons, giraffes, lemurs, turtles from the Galapagos, and there is even an area that recr...