More photos of Cambridge
Chapel
Chapel
Cambridge Gargoyles
Whipsnade Zoo
4 week old elephant
The only reason that I know that I've been here, is that we have some old sepia Polaroids taken in the zoo, and I don't know whether we visited from Oxford or from London. Back in 1950 when we visited (right after WWII) I think the zoo was very different than it is today. The zoo was started in the early 30s and took inspiration from the Bronx Zoo. In January 1932 the Glasgow based ‘Bostock & Wombwells Travelling Menagerie’ closed after 160 years on the road, and the animals came to Whipsnade. For the journey from Glasgow to Dunstable the wagons were carried by rail and then towed up to the Zoo. However, the elephants and camels were transported in railway horse boxes to Dunstable but then had to walk the last few miles over the Downs to the Zoo.
I think some of those animals were the ones that we rode on - I see no evidence that animal rides are offered now.
Me and my sister on a camel at Whipsnade Zoo 1950
My mother on the camel
One of the Polaroids that didn't finish
So we took another one of the same
Riding an elephant
After the International Anatomical Conference, we rented a car (A Morris Oxford) and drove up to Edinburgh.
Rented English car (Morris Oxford)
We thought all English women were very dominant in their marriages because they all sat on the left side of the car until we realized that the man sitting on the right was the driver. The thing I remember most about this trip was that we had a lot of trouble finding a place to eat lunch. We would stop at 11:30 and the place would not be serving until noon. We would stop an hour later and the place would be out of food because a bus load of people had just stopped and cleaned them out. We finally found a place with a catering license who could feed us out of regular hours.
street in small English town - chimneys
Bull and Swan Inn
Poppies
We stayed in Ye Olde Bell Inn & Restaurant. We had a room which looked out on the road and there was a big garden. I don't know exactly where this place was in 1950 - there are a couple of places where it could be.
Bell Inn with my sister, my mother and me
In front of Bell Inn
Garden of Bell Inn
Snapdragons in the Bell Inn garden
Chapel
Chapel
Cambridge Gargoyles
Whipsnade Zoo
4 week old elephant
The only reason that I know that I've been here, is that we have some old sepia Polaroids taken in the zoo, and I don't know whether we visited from Oxford or from London. Back in 1950 when we visited (right after WWII) I think the zoo was very different than it is today. The zoo was started in the early 30s and took inspiration from the Bronx Zoo. In January 1932 the Glasgow based ‘Bostock & Wombwells Travelling Menagerie’ closed after 160 years on the road, and the animals came to Whipsnade. For the journey from Glasgow to Dunstable the wagons were carried by rail and then towed up to the Zoo. However, the elephants and camels were transported in railway horse boxes to Dunstable but then had to walk the last few miles over the Downs to the Zoo.
I think some of those animals were the ones that we rode on - I see no evidence that animal rides are offered now.
Me and my sister on a camel at Whipsnade Zoo 1950
My mother on the camel
One of the Polaroids that didn't finish
So we took another one of the same
Riding an elephant
After the International Anatomical Conference, we rented a car (A Morris Oxford) and drove up to Edinburgh.
Rented English car (Morris Oxford)
We thought all English women were very dominant in their marriages because they all sat on the left side of the car until we realized that the man sitting on the right was the driver. The thing I remember most about this trip was that we had a lot of trouble finding a place to eat lunch. We would stop at 11:30 and the place would not be serving until noon. We would stop an hour later and the place would be out of food because a bus load of people had just stopped and cleaned them out. We finally found a place with a catering license who could feed us out of regular hours.
street in small English town - chimneys
Bull and Swan Inn
Poppies
We stayed in Ye Olde Bell Inn & Restaurant. We had a room which looked out on the road and there was a big garden. I don't know exactly where this place was in 1950 - there are a couple of places where it could be.
Bell Inn with my sister, my mother and me
In front of Bell Inn
Garden of Bell Inn
Snapdragons in the Bell Inn garden
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