Peacock at New Brighton Zoo: Picturing Canterbury

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Peacock at New Brighton Zoo, 1965. CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 NZ, CCL-PH13-246

Peacock at New Brighton Zoo. January 1965. The North Brighton Zoo started as an aquarium, possibly as early as the 1880s and became a mini zoo, run by Bill Grey, in the late 1940s. It closed in 1996.

Date: 1965.

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