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Zoo Bus at Saughton
Unknown, 1921, Photograph
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Zoo Bus at Saughton
Zoo Bus at Saughton
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31453
Title
Zoo Bus at Saughton
Description
A group of adults and children look out from their open-sided mini-bus. It seems that a ticket to the car terminus and zoo cost 2 pennies in the zoo bus.
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Unknown
Date
1921
Size
12.5 x 21.3 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland was founded in 1909 by Edinburgh lawyer Thomas Hailing Gillespie.The 85 acre site in Corstorphine was purchased in 1913 by the Society and Edinburgh Town Council. This site is still home to Edinburgh Zoo. The Zoo was opened to the public on 22 July 1913. It currently houses some 1000 animals.
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100 years of Lothian Buses
ReDrawing Edinburgh: Edinburgh in 1920
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