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munday | 22:31 Fri 08th Oct 2004 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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Who started a zoo in a department store in Bournemouth ? Not sure if it's fact or fiction - been bugging me for months ! Any ideas ?
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gerald durrel maybe,i know he lived in bournemouth for a while?
Try doing a search on the late "John Aspinall", pretty sure it's him.
Is this one of those urban myths as the only possible department store in Bournemouth at that time would have been Beales - and I can't see that happening (unless someone knows differently) ;-) Gerald Durrell lived in the Charminster/Queens Park area in the 1950's and caused a lot of problems for the authorities keeping animals in the garden. Sadly, he was not given permission he needed to start a zoo locally so he moved his menagerie to Jersey - and a very good move too. I know very little about John Aspinall but I believe his zoo was called 'Howlett's' (sp) and was around the Winchester area.

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