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Blackpool Zoo marks 50 years of animal keeping

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Blackpool Zoo is marking 50 years of animal keeping – long since the days when it housed elephants in aircraft hangars and zookeepers in a traffic control tower. The zoo opened on 6 July 1972 on a former airport site. Some 3,500 visitors braved heavy rain that day to see TV presenter Johnny Morris open the attraction, riding a circus elephant. The zoo has announced a special weekend of...

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