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Guide 24

Catalogue reference: F.4.3.3.24

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Reference
F.4.3.3.24
Title
Guide 24
Date
1904
Description

1d. Folding plan as 1900 Guide (p.1) p.2-32

(p.1) Text preceded by 5 notes: Note 3 - Electric Tramcar to or from Manchester. 2d in or out ..... the Manchester Corporation's Electric Tramcars pass this entrance (Hyde Road Entrance) every few minutes .... The electric cars on the Manchester/Longsight and Manchester/Stockport routes starting from Market Street every 3 minutes .... p.2: Cages 1 to 20, p.3: Cages 21 to 32, p.4: Cages 33 to 38 .... the Shooting Jungle Rifle Range, p.5: ... Present Store, 39 New Snake Cage of a size & style never before attempted in any collection - below a photograph of incubating Python, p.7: ... the large python incubating a sitting of 50, laid April 6th, due to hatch early June .... opp. Photograph of Conservatory and Snake Cage (Cage 40), p.8: Cages 43 to 49, p.10: Cages 50 to 61, p.11: Cages 62 to 87, 62 Red Deer from the collection of the Earl of Annersley .... p.14: Cages 94 to 107, p.15: Cages 108 to 120, p.16: Cages 121 to 129, 126 Female Camel with young, born in the Gardens, March 29th 1904, p.17: Cages 130 to 140, p.18: Cages 141 to 162, 144 Chacma Baboon, Cape Colony - For a year the pet of the 3rd Lancaster Regiment. p.20: Cages 163 to 177, p.21: 'Hussein the Indian Juggler' .... specially imported for the season .... p.23: Cages 185 to 197 190 Accommodation Cage, 194 Vacant .... The constrictive group occupies the great Snake Cage, just completed, near the Picture Lake, p.24: Donations, arranged as 1909 catalogue, 28 donors, p.25: Conveyance ... Tram Cars and Omnibuses, The Manchester Corporation have two separate lines of electric tramways from Market Street and the centre of the city, by which the Gardens may be reached ... Time Tables of local services are conspicuously placed in the Gardens (p.26), p.27-29 Russo-Japanese War.

Printed at the Zoological Gardens, Belle Vue, Manchester.

Multi-lithograph cover, lower r.h.c. Horrocks & Co. Lithos. Ashton & Manchester.

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Chetham's Library
Language
English
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/feb3d644-6e76-444c-92da-491d781e10bf/

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F.4.3.3

TWENTY-NINE GUIDES TO ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, BELLE VUE, MANCHESTER

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Within the fonds: F.4.1.-F.6.9

BELLE VUE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS

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TWENTY-NINE GUIDES TO ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, BELLE VUE, MANCHESTER

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Guide 24