Southport, Children's Zoo c.1955
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The children's zoo was definitely a hands-on place. Here children get up close to all manner of small, and usually friendly, animals.

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Memories of Southport, Children's Zoo c1955

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I used to love going to the children’s zoo at Southport as a child in the 1950s, when I was about the same age as the little girls seen in this view. The baby goats were my favourite animals there. I remember we had a family scene once, when I wanted to take one home with me. My mother and father couldn’t make me understand that I wasn’t allowed to, and I had a little girl’s paddy about it. I’m afraid there were lots of tears before bedtime that day…!