Belle Vue Zoo

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For other meanings of the term, see Belle Vue.

Belle Vue Zoo was a large zoo located at Belle Vue in the east of Manchester in England from 1836 until it closed in 1977.

The zoo was part of an early example of a theme park, featuring many fairground rides, a large lake, an annual circus and many exhibition halls and ballrooms. See history

For several years after World War II the zoo had a frogman display.

See http://manchesterhistory.net/bellevue/attract.html.

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