• Belle Vue Zoological Gardens was a large zoo, amusement park, exhibition hall complex and speedway stadium in Belle Vue, Manchester, England, opened in...
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    Works in Belle Vue. The company closed down in the late 1960s. The area is best known for the former Belle Vue Zoological Gardens and Belle Vue Stadium...
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  • England Belle Vue railway station, Isle of Man a railway station serving Port Lewaigue and Port-e-Vullen on the Isle of Man Belle Vue Zoological Gardens, a...
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  • ground of Manchester Central F.C. and which formed part of the Belle Vue Zoological Gardens. The purpose built 382 metres (418 yards) track was laid around...
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  • in early 2002. Belle Vue Zoological Gardens was a large zoo, amusement park, exhibition hall complex and speedway stadium in Belle Vue, Manchester, England...
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    Part of the complex of buildings and attractions that formed Belle Vue Zoological Gardens the Hyde Road stadium was originally constructed in 1886, as...
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    greyhound stadium and called it Belle Vue. The name of the stadium came from the nearby Belle Vue Zoological Gardens that had been built in 1836 and the...
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  • botany and horticulture in later life. The gardens competed with John Jennison's Belle Vue Zoological Gardens opened three years earlier, but the venture...
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    Newcastle upon Tyne he mounted a bison bull, and for the former Belle Vue Zoological Gardens he mounted an Indian rhinoceros. He was born into a family of...
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    in the United States as late as the 1960s. The flea circus at Belle Vue Zoological Gardens, Manchester, England, was still operating in 1970. In 2013, there...
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    Dale into Manchester Central It was popular with visitors to Belle Vue Zoological Gardens, set up by John Jennison in 1836. After the zoo's closure in...
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    was home to the world-famous Belle Vue Zoological Gardens from 1836 until its closure in the 1980s. At its peak, Belle Vue attracted more than two million...
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    Liverpool, England Loss 34–13 Thad Spencer PTS 10 2 May 1966 Belle Vue Zoological Gardens, Manchester, England Win 34–12 Roger Rischer KO 1 20 Sep 1965...
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    a popular performing chimpanzee named Consul, and so did the Belle Vue Zoological Gardens in Manchester, England, in 1894. On the latter's death in that...
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    sold to London Zoo, Chester Zoo, Paignton Zoo, Bristol Zoo, and Belle Vue Zoological Gardens. He followed this expedition with two others, accompanied by...
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  • Morecambe, Lancashire Battersea Fun Fair, London (1951–1974) Belle Vue Zoological Gardens, Manchester (1836–1987) Brocklands Adventure Park, Cornwall (1977–2007)...
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  • £276, leased from the adjacent Belle Vue Zoological Gardens. With capital of £22,000, £8,000 of which was borrowed, Belle Vue Stadium was built on the land...
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  • round. Win 40–9–4 Giulio Rinaldi DQ 1 13 February 1967 Belle Vue Zoological Gardens, Belle Vue, Manchester Rinaldi disqualified at 2:45 of the first round...
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  • sister Norah and a half-brother Albert. Mottershead was taken to Belle Vue Zoological Gardens in Manchester in 1903 as a childhood treat. He disliked seeing...
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    and art museum. Manchester Athenaeum established. 1836 June: Belle Vue Zoological Gardens open. 23 September: Esteemed Spanish opera singer Maria Malibran...
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  • competitions by the late 1850s. In 1853 John Jennison, owner of Belle Vue Zoological Gardens in Manchester, agreed to stage the first British open brass band...
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    heavyweight title 17 Loss 14–3 Peter Bates TKO 5 (10), 1:01 7 Sep 1956 Belle Vue Zoological Gardens, Manchester, England 16 Win 14–2 Giannino Orlando Luise TKO 7...
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  • 100 feet into the air. A 12-hole course situated on the former Flagstaff Gardens on the promenade. Opened in 2008. A museum of oddities built across two...
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    "Jetstream" ride was sold to Trusthouse Forte, the then owners of Belle Vue Zoological Gardens in Manchester. A night scene at the funfair, which was ghostly...
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    surrounding conurbation. Many institutions were established including Belle Vue Zoological Gardens (founded by John Jennison in 1836), the Manchester Athenaeum...
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  • second wife moved to Ainsworth Street in Gorton (next door to Belle Vue Zoological Gardens), where he became a clogger. Nuttall's son Stephen later became...
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    London 42 Loss 35–7 Thad Spencer RTD 2 (10) 18 Apr 1966 Belle Vue Zoological Gardens, Belle Vue, Manchester 41 Win 35–6 Giuseppe Migliari PTS 10 22 Mar...
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    Manchester's Belle Vue Zoo (closed 1978). The Belle Vue zoo staff war memorial in Gorton Cemetery in Manchester is now badly damaged. Botanic gardens such as...
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  • 02/05/1966 Belle Vue Zoological Gardens, Belle Vue, Manchester 32 Win 28–4 Jack Bodell RTD 2 (10) 18/04/1966 Belle Vue Zoological Gardens, Belle Vue, Manchester...
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    Zealand. Potts provided the mechanism for a floral clock at Belle Vue Zoological Gardens in 1936. "Potts of Leeds". Retrieved 12 April 2014. "Greenwich...
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