John Burke's a-Musings

Travel, holidays, nostalgia, curiosities and my home town of Blackpool - all with a helping of good humour

Showing posts with label elephants. Show all posts

Showing posts with label elephants. Show all posts

Sunday, 29 January 2012

Flying at Blackpool

Blackpool made an early investment into powered flight. As early as 1909 they held an Air Pageant at Squires Gate following a suggestion by...

Monday, 3 March 2008

Chester Zoo in 1981

Desperately casting about for something to say... I see from the archives that 17 years ago on the 4th March we took our daughter Gillian to...

Tuesday, 7 August 2007

When The Circus Came To Town

I've had to do a fair bit of restoration on this one! The photo shows the arrival of the circus in York sometime around 1910 and was sen...

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