SNAKES alive! These youngsters might look as if they are fooling around, but they were enjoying a special day at Calderpark Zoo.
Back in June 1982 the bosses at the zoo in the East End were so delighted with improvements that had been made to the attraction they reduced their prices ... to what they were when the zoo opened in 1947.
Visitors paid 5p – equivalent to the shilling paid by those 35 years earlier – while children paid 2p (an old five pennies).
Normal admission was £1.50 for adults and 80p for children.
Those who took advantage saw spacious new enclosures for the animals, particularly the lions and cheetahs and could use the three miles of tarmacadam that had been laid to make it easier for visitors to walk around.
At its peak the zoo, later renamed Glasgow Zoo, attracted about 140,000 visitors a year
to see more than 600 animals. But it was hit by debts and closed in 1993.
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