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Knowsley Safari Park 40Th Anniversary Special ALiverpool ★★★★ supplement Knowsley Safari Park 40th Anniversary Special The park: its history and its future Animals do the oddest things – fab facts and funny photos EXCLUSIVE ECHO READER OFFER INSIDE 2 NEWS Thursday, July 21, 2011 ★★★★ KNOWSLEY SAFARI PARK ● 40th ANNIVERSARYCELEBRATION ‘So proud of our achievements’ HELLO and a very warm welcome Four decades ago, when the idea from across the north of England to to this special supplement marking of a safari park here in Knowsley boost the local economy yet always 40 years since the opening of was first mooted, there was little with animal welfare at its heart. Knowsley Safari Park. else like it in the UK. Nowhere else I am enormously proud of what Over the next 12 pages I hope could you find a park so close to has been achieved at Knowsley and you will gain some insight into how such a large urban population, a excited at what we may yet achieve the park came about, its history, place where human beings were in the coming years. the challenges we have faced over able to get as close as possible to If you have visited us in the past, the years and the work we do some of the most magnificent do come again. There is always today, both in terms of species creatures on the planet and all something new to see, something HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Knowsley Safari conservation, breeding and from their very own ‘cage’ – their different to experience and in providing one of the biggest tourist own car. terms of value for money we’re Park general manager David Ross, attractions in the country. It seems a long time ago since hard to beat. who has been there since it opened, There are some wonderful the park welcomed those first If you have never enjoyed what celebrates the anniversary with photos – both of animals and day-trippers, 200,000 in the first we offer here across 500 acres then Rigsby the giraffe humans – some fascinating facts month alone. try to come soon – the school about the park, an illuminating Over the intervening years we summer holidays are almost here history and some intriguing stories have seen many changes and faced and now is the perfect time to see of our time spent here with the many challenges, not least the foot our animals at their best. Contents animals. We’ve also included some and mouth crisis and more than Either way I look forward to very special offers as a way of saying one recession. Ye t we have welcoming you to our park. PAGES 2-3: thank you to you, the people of emerged as the successful business Yo u r s , Welcome from the current Earl of Merseyside, for your continued you see today – a must-go-to WARM WELCOME: The Derby and the history of past earls. support. attraction which brings visitors in The Earl of Derby Earl of Derby PAGES 4-5: How Knowsley Safari Park was created. Timeline of key events over the past 40 years of the park. PAGE 6: Knowsley Safari Park today – all the facts you’ll ever need to know. PAGE 7: Knowsley snippets. PAGE 8: Animals do the funniest things – the weird and wacky world of creatures. PAGE 9: Up close and personal – VIP Knowsley experiences you’ll never forget. PAGE 10: Conservation and breeding – what we do and why we do it. PAGE 11: A life lived among animals – meet general manager David Ross. PAGE 12: Exclusive reader offers. Words: SUSAN LEE Designer: RACHEL HERRITY USEFUL INFORMATION Knowsley Safari Park is open daily (March 1 to October 31) from 10am until 4pm Entry prices: History of Adults (16 years and over) £15 Children (3-15 years) £11 OAPs (60 and over) £11 Season ticket: Adult, £40 Child/OAP: £30 ISITORS arriving today at audience that included Queen Elizabeth I. ● SEE OUR GREAT VALUE SEASON the safari park inevitably The 12th Earl gave his name to the TICKET OFFER ON PAGE 12 will be looking forward to a famous Derby horse race which he Season tickets are valid for 12 months from date day out among the animals. started in 1780, while the 14th Earl was VBut did you know the park, prime minister three times during of purchase and also gives you 10% off all purchases in the shop and restaurant. its owners and their ancestors, have Queen Victoria’s reign. Amusement rides: played a crucial part in the country’s The 16th Earl was President of the £2 per ticket, £10 per wristband. history? Board of Trade and Governor General of Rides are open weekends and school holidays The Stanley family have owned the Canada, and the 17th was Minister of from February half term to October. Rides open Knowsley Estate since the 14th century. War during the First World War, as well from noon and height restrictions apply. Lord Thomas Stanley was created the as Ambassador to France after the Winter Opening Times: November 1 to 1st Earl of Derby after the Battle of conflict. February 28: WEEKENDS ONLY Bosworth in 1485 when he recovered the Yet it was the 18th Earl we must thank 10.30am open, 3pm last entry. Closed December crown of the slain Richard III and placed it for the founding of the park itself and 24th/25th, New Ye ar’s Eve and New Ye ar’s Day on the head of his stepson, Henry Tudor. his nephew, the 19th and current earl, How to find us: The 5th Earl maintained a company of who inherited the title in 1994 and who From M62 exit at junction 6 then take the M57 REMARKABLE: A portrait of Edward Smith Stanley, actors, one of whom was William still runs it today. exit at junction 2. At the roundabout follow the the 13th Earl of Derby who created his own Shakespeare. Later, the bard’s A Of course the Knowsley Estate was brown safari signs. menagerie in the 19th century Midsummer Night’s Dream was home to exotic species from around the SatNav reference: L34 4AN performed for the first time at the world long before the actual safari park License granted courtesy of the Rt Hon The Earl of Derby wedding of the 6th Earl, in front of an opened in 1971. ★★★★ Thursday, July 21, 2011 NEWS 3 KNOWSLEY SAFARI PARK ● HISTORY REMEMBER WHEN: How the Liverpool ECHO BEST PALS: A charming 1974 snapshot of an elephant and a rhino who became friends at the Safari Park reported the opening of Knowsley Safari Park SAFARI FACT The park occupies an area of more than 500 acres NEVER MIND: Visitors remain cheerful despite finding themselves CHEEKY MONKEY: Stanley the baboon tries to steal some cake meant earlsin the breakdown lane past andfor present all the monkeys The 13th Earl of Derby had a lifelong the Zoological Society of London in 1826, These include the 58-foot-long state passion for natural history and created and he was president of the organisation dining room, originally created in 1820 his own menagerie in the mid 19th from 1831 until he died in 1851. by the 12th Earl of Derby to celebrate a century which contained, at its peak, 318 Following his death the Illustrated visit by George IV. species of birds and 94 species of London News described his Other highlights include an mammals. menagerie as the most exceptional library and an unusual They occupied paddocks complete and important walnut drawing room inspired by and buildings covering more private zoological collection eighteenth century French design. than 100 acres of land, created in the world and added that The hall – which is set in a 2,500-acre by an army of 400 labourers ‘it is hard to think of a more private park created by Capability hired specifically for the task. perfect epitaph for a truly Brown – can be used for events including Lord Derby’s scientific remarkable man’. weddings, conferences, seminars, interest in animals led him to If you get a chance, take a product launches, dinners and balls. become a founding member of look at Knowsley Hall itself. It is also open to the public for one It’s a fascinating structure, week each summer and is much in with the earliest part of the demand as a film and TV location, MAKING HISTORY: building dating from 1495 featuring in programmes as diverse as Thomas Stanley, the first and boasting a classic the The Forsyte Saga and Hollyoaks. Earl of Derby in 1485 Georgian facade and some Above all it remains a family house fine Jacobean, baroque and for the current earl, his wife and three MAGNIFICENT: Knowsley Hall, ancestral home of the Earls Victorian interiors. children. of Derby 4 NEWS Thursday, July 21, 2011 ★★★★ KNOWSLEY SAFARI PARK ● HOW THE PARK WAS CREATED KEY OF THE DOOR: An elephant and his keeper celebrate the park’s 21st birthday Crowds came WHAT ARE WE LOOKING AT?: One of the park’s HESE days we take safari parks for planners were understandably nervous about famous baboons has a rest on a visitor’s car granted, but the idea of visitors the project, particularly in terms of its potential “caged” in their cars, while the to cause traffic problems. As a result, it animals roam free, was introduced to attracted a significant amount of publicity. Tthe UK in the mid 1960s. In fact, one newspaper called the application The idea, based on the drive-through game for the park “one of the strangest ever to be reserves of East Africa, is widely credited to considered by Lancashire County Council Jimmy Chipperfield of Chipperfield’s Circus Planning Authority”.
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