GUIDE 2

Guide to the Zoological Gardens of Belle Vue. Open every day.

Programme of attractions ... 50 acres, Museum of Natural History; ... lakes with pleasure boats and steamers; maze - New Maze specially designed for ... gardens; Great Hall decorated by Danson & Sons of London ... Galleries and refreshment rooms attached for 40,000 visitors.

BELLE VUE BAND .... every day during the Summer ... every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday in the Winter Months. DANSON AND SONS ... Siege and Fall of Plevna, every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday during the Season ... The Great Picture being shown daily. REFRESHMENT ROOMS Visitors ... furnished with Tea Cups and other requisites for 2d each, in the extensive rooms set apart for that purpose.

(1-3) 4-24p.

p.1. EXCURSIONS & PLEASURE PARTY ARRANGEMENTS.

ARRANGEMENTS BY SPECIAL TRAINS.

Special Cheap Rates .... Free Admission to the Gardens for ....

Parties of not less than 300 ... may be obtained from all stations on the Midland, Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire, Great Northern, London and North Western, Great Western, Cheshire Lines and North Staffordshire Railways. Applications to .... Superintendants, or particulars from Messrs Jennison.

Danson & Sons Grand Spectacle of the recent Siege and fall of Plevna ... Monday, Wednesday and Saturday evening, to Oct 21st inclusive, and every Saturday afterwards to November 5th ... information as to hour of fireworks will take place on any particular date ... application to Messrs JENNISON by letter or at Gardens.

p.2. PIC-NIC .... PLEASURE PARTY TICKETS

.... Single Fare for Double Journey, with 6d add. for Admission to Gardens ... from principal stations on Midland, Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire and Cheshire Lines Railways, not less than twelve miles distant to Ashbury's or Belle Vue Station, near the Gardens, to Parties of not less than six 1st Class or Ten 2nd or 3rd Class Passengers ... applications to any of the stations from which Party wish to proceed, not less than 3 days before Excursion ... to state exclusively a Pleasure Party, stations ... class of carriage .... date ... probable party number ... available for return on SAME DAY ONLY

p.2. Promoters of Belle Vue ... after final arrangements with Rwy Co. be supplied with ... Posters ... Handbills for distribution among the workmen and friends announcing Trip, departure & return times, places for obtaining tickets.

p.3. As many changes are made in the Gardens old Guides will not be found correct. ... distance from M/C Infirmary .... 2½ mls .... Manchester Carriage Company's omnibuses pass ... every 15 mins ... Omnibuses run from Market Street to Long-sight entrance every 5 mins ... road free from toll for vehicles from Manchester, also 2½ mls from Infirmary .... visitors from City's southern parts & stations on London & North Western Railway .... Gorton Entrance & Hotel (opened

p.4. 1876) ... near Belle Vue Station (Midland Rwy) ... parties in conveyances from Ashton-under-Lyne and Hyde ... Commodius stables erected within hotel ... for several hundred horses, no charge ... Admission for coachman or servants same as other visitors .... new AVIARY ... List of birds, type nos. & country or origin.

p.5. New AVIARY ... list of birds, animals also included 1-38

AVIARY 2 ... large cage (No.56) for small BIRDS ... cages numbered list of specimens ... arranged as previous list, 39-54; 55-62.

AVIARY 3 ... 3 cages: 1 & 2 Lion & Lioness. 4 cubs born Sept. 19th 187 3 - Bengal Tigers (2)

p.6. FERNERY : ... not always open to the public, permission may be obtained before 2 p.m. any day, on Tues. Thu. & Fri apply to Gardner up to 6.00 p.m.

Lake recently enlarged ... 8 acres.

Rates: Pleasure Boats 3d/4d per ½ hr each passenger

Steamers 1d/2d per ½ hr each passenger, Lake Tour Hampton Court maze removed & replanted, admission 1d.

p.7. ... new Maze, planted in Spring 1870, 1d admission.

Giraffe House - 2 specimens added June, 1874

List of occupants of cages 63 to 87 - arranged as before.

p.8. Cages 88-96. no. of cages ... animals & birds being removed, contents of cages 97 to 121 listed.

p.9. New Elephant House, erected Winter 1875.

a Indian elephants, Rhinocerous purchased 1876 & female hippotamus 1876. Male elephant "Maharajah" added at dispersal of Wombell's Menagerie, Edinburgh, Spring 1870.

p.10. Monkey cage contents, cage numbers only 122 to 139.

DANSON & SONS ... TOWN OF PLEVNA ... details of display, see (p.1.)

p.11. includes Fireworks ... Illuminated portrait of Osman Pasha ... end of catalogue, detailed account of the late Russo-Turkish war.

Lake Boats ... 1d each, round tour of Lake ...

REFRESHMENT ROOM PRICES (Selected samples)

TEA or COFFEE ... (per cup) 3d

TEA with Breat and Butter, Biscuits, Salad 1. 0.

HAM or BEEF SANDWICHES (per square) 0. 2.

ECCLES CAKES 0. 2.

LEMONADE - Schweppes (per bottle) 0. 2.

MILK 0. 2.

WINES

CHAMPAGNE

Moet's best brands, or Louis Roederer's per bottle per half bottle

Carte Blanch 10. 0. 5. 0.

SHERRY 5. 0. 2. 6.

p.12. WINES/CONT.

DINNER CLARET 2. 6. 1. 6.

ALE or PORTER 1. 0. 0. 6.

CIGARS 2d and 3d each

HAVANA CIGARS 4d and 6d each

... No less charge than sixpence for Spirits and Wines, delivered by a waiter.

TEA ROOMS

... enlarged since last season ... One shilling each ... admission Tea, with Bread & Butter supplied to all in the room ... sixpence for a plate of Beef or Ham with Tea ... must be paid for at Table. Visitors ... provided themselves with own Refreshments ... obtain Hot Water, Tea-pots, Cups, Knives and other requisites, in the Large New Room, at the lower end of the Music Hall ... Two pence charged for this accommodation.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN'S ROOMS ... in lower portion of Music Hall, also Parcel Office. Coats, Umbrellas, Baskets or Parcels left during day ... asked for at least 3/4 hr before ... Fireworks ...

p.13. Nos of Animals dens 140 to 156, these include 145-148 Lion cubs b. Aug. 31st, 1876 & no. 156 Lion Cubs, bred in Menagerie, b. Nov. 1st, 1875 ....

Museum Natural History, 1d admission ... collection of live Serpents, Crocodiles and Lizards ... Cages nos. 157 to 163.

CONVEYANCE TO AND FROM THE GARDENS

... Private Carriages: may order servants to be in waiting on road behind Music Hall, or near General Entrance

Omnibus or foot : exit near General Entrance ....

p.14. also Longsight Entrance or New Gorton Entrance.

A new Coach and Omnibus Stand ... provided ... left of Hyde Road Entrance ... private stand of Messrs Jennison ......

OMNI-BUSES

Manchester Carriage Company start from Manchester for Longsight ..... ¼ ml from lower entrance .... every 5 mins during year (excepting Sundays .... Fares: 3d inside

2d outside

also throughout year every ¼ hr ... betwixt Market St & Hyde Rd entrance Fares Inside 4d

Outside 3d cabs

After Fireworks many omnibuses ...... to Manchester

Cab fares 9d per mile for 1 or 2 persons. 3 or more 1s per mile.

RAILWAY: London Road Station L.N.W.R. to Longsight, 250 yds lower entrance

M.S.L. to Ashbury Station,

800 yds from House Entrance.

New M.S. and L & Midland Co's route to Belle Vue Station, near Gardens' Eastern entrance.

Fares: to Longsight and Belle Vue Stations:

3rd Class 2d

2nd Class 3d

1st Class 4d

Fares: to Ashbury Station

3rd Class 1½d

2nd Class 3d

1st Class 4d

(p.15), p.16-22 : THE LATE RUSSO-TURKISH WAR

p.23-p.24 : CAB FARES TO AND FROM Belle Vue Gardens, Manchester

TO OR FROM THE COACH STAND AT

Albert Square One or Two Three or More

Pasgrs Pasngrs

2 3 3 0

Alphabetical by place arranged as above.

Free Trade Hall and Theatre Royal, as Albert Square

Hunt's Bank, Manchester 2 6 3 4

South Junction Railway Station 2 0 2 9

Victoria Stations 2 6 3 4

Fares same to each entrance.

Purple cover, soiled.