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MICK EDWARDS               early CONTACT US       FORUMS       PBASE Welcome to the new home for Windsor Safari Park - resited in the summer of 2008 after five years with fasthosts Okay, now we are somewhere else so I recommend that you look a little further down the page at the left hand column menu. This lists the premier areas of the site and if you have any Windsor Safari photos up your sleeve, particularly the Safari Vehicles on site and the Park 1982 - 1992 then PLEASE contact us with your photos!! John Child ! LOG ONTO HIS SITE RIGHT HERE for more cartoons and to contact him view his thread! take the Bill of 76's: The Seventies Safari QUIZ Mick Edwards has kindly allowed his superb copy of the "Windsor Safari Park guide" to be scanned for display on the site. There is no date shown in the guide unfortunately, but from the look of the cars going into the safari park, it is probably in the 1970s. The Kids' Fort was still doing business in the late 1980s and so were the giraffes, so it's nice to know that SOME THINGS stayed the same for a while. What a top safari park, just look at this! Brilliant fun for all the family at WSFP!! The staff uniforms look absolutely brilliant in these photos, but I just do not remember them at all. I wonder when they were discontinued. Maybe it was during the 1980s that the staff were given different clothing. As you can see, educational material has been included into the guide rather than information concentrated only on the Safari Park facilities and it's 'set up.' Just imagine being this staff ranger eh?! What must have it been like to be a ranger at Windsor Safari Park back in the days when these photos were taken? To walk around these animals with such confidence and freedom must have been sheer heaven. Just look at this guy! The giraffes are obviously accustomed to the ranger and have no problem with his presence at all. Job of the century or what?! Just take a look at these guys' uniform. Sheesh, I just love that get up! The keeper has some kind of triangular badge sewn onto his right hand jacket sleeve!! What does it say? What does it mean? I'd love to know!! anyway, I bet the public just lapped it up too. Great photo, but the commentary below it I find a little disappointing, I'd much rather hear about the actual safari park than ten million years ago but never mind. And below are the elephants that Mick Edwards photographed - whereabouts on the safari route were they? Well I seem to remember that they were pretty near to the start of the route, but in a car you could plummet into the route at a number of places. The coaches always started down the bottom of the park and there were no stops, you went the whole way around, no getting off here there and everywhere. Mind you - who WANTED to get off anyway? Certainly not me!! I loved those coach tours with a passion and ended up knowing the safari route like the back of my hand, for a driver it was especially comfortable to know that you didn't have to change gear, steer or ANYTHING! Just sit back and enjoy the show - which was always a great treat for me.            Mick Edwards took this brilliant picture >>> This reminds me a bit of when Terry Nutkins and Chris Packham visited the park in 1988 and had great fun with the elephants, mind you I think this page is a good ten years back before that!! CHECK OUT Terry Nutkins and Chris Packham when they visited Windsor Safari Park in 1988!!

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<< what a fascinating map of Windsor safari park 1970s era!!

How crucial is that??

The safari route is pretty plain to see with two lock gates in place (for TIGERS/ LIONS paddocks) - the flamingoes and pelicans lake is easy to spot on there too, plus of course THE MANSION!!

"Saint Leonards House" still remains, to this day of course

Many places like Windsor Safari Park have a mansion house at their heart, examples, Chessington and Port Lympne. St Leonards was Windsor Safari Park's mansion and this is where Mick Edwards ran some prime Disco Action in the 1980s.

He was a great DJ and enjoyed running the music and programme for youngsters who attended. Looking at the MAP, I seem to remember that the place remained as shown in that map for much of the 1980s. The leaf marked area shown "Jungle Ride" I believe is the Safari Route for cars which remained the same for many many years and in fact when LEGOLAND took the site in 1994, they did not build their amenities anywhere near those paddocks (as they had so much room further up)

The text in this Lions page is perhaps the most interesting in the guide.

It chats over how the lions were "introduced" to the Windsor Safari Park enclosure and how in their opinion, the lions enjoyed captivity.

Wow, what a sweeping statement - but in the generous accommodations of Windsor Safari Park, hey, maybe they did!

Windsor Safari Park DOLPHINS and Sea World ! The dolphin pool alone, contained 250,000 gallons of water

Fabulous photos of the animals at Windsor! I just love these pics! Remember the sensational dolphins? They worked with the sealions and the killer whale for year on year and were quite astonishing to see perform.

I do remember that we were told they had a total water area of 1 million gallons but the guide quotes 250,000 for the dolphin pool.

Probably not as roomy as the accommodations enjoyed by the Lions but they certainly did seem happy when I saw them!

<< The zebra house seen behind the lone zebra The zebras were pretty well behaved and shared a whacking great enclosure with the giraffes in the 1980s. We were chatting to the rangers who told us that people on the safari route actually got OUT of their cars to pose with a zebra for a photo!! NICE! Unfortunately one swift kick from the zebra later and a very badly shaken and knocked about woman, has to be carted out of the route, by a hard driven rangers' landrover, yikes - all part of an average day for the great Windsor Safari Park staff! _________________________ The cheetah can attain a mind bending 75 mph! Yes sir, that is correct, 75mph and remember, back in those days 2 star petrol was THE NORM! a furious cheetah snarls at a sarcastic keeper

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These guys were a 'MUST see' for any visitors to Windsor Safari Park.

To have them climbing all over your car bending the windscreen wipers and breaking your wing mirrors off was just the icing on the cake - WE JUST LOVED THEM EVEN MORE!!

Who could go to Windsor Safari Park and possibly miss the legendary baboons? WHO? These guys were as popular as Seaworld and that's saying something.

The curious but likeable baboons would most likely swarm all over your car to helpfully check whether your windscreen wipers were really that secure that a good pull could not succeed in yanking them clear and what about your wing mirrors? Hey maybe they should be checked for the amount of "adjustment" ??

Love those guys, in the background of pic 2 a few cars can be seen bravely motoring through the baboons encampment (this is daytime too! and that is top daring do)

Did you ever tangle with these lovable rogues? Tell your epic tangle in our FORUM!

The baboon encampment was a great roomy affair with a road circling around the place, the baboons could jump all over their stone slabs or content themsleves with jumping from one car to another.

At the end of the 1980s a policy came in STOPPING cars from driving around the safari route entirely

I think there were just too many cars and too many flippin incidents of idiot drivers getting out of their cars or leaving their windows down I'm not entirely sure but the next thing we knew it was NO CARS

YEP! NO CARS ALLOWED

It was coach only and that was when the land trains came in but I have very little experience of them, I wonder what the baboons thought when the cars stopped coming through

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On 31st March 1970 Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret and her son Viscount Linley, opened the brand new Royal Windsor Safari Park. The Mayor of Windsor, the Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire and many other local dignitaries were presented to Her Highness in the Library of the St Leonards House (which still remains at Legoland to this day)

So the safari park remained open for a further 22 years. Well I guess 22 years is not a brief period in anybody's book but I wonder what Billy Smart (the creator of Windsor Safari Park) would say about the closure of such a fine achievement. The origins of the park are detailed [right] and make top reading indeed.

Although Billy Smart conceived the idea of the safari park, it was actually his sons who brought about the construction of the park. So what are his sons doing nowadays? They really should join up here as members SURELY! :-)

It would be great to hear from anybody who knew any of the SMARTS or who knows what they went on to do after 1992. What were they like? What are they doing now?

Actually, I don't know about you but 22 years is a damn SHORT period of time for a legendary thing like Windsor Safari Park! 22 YEARS? BOY!!

That was all? Shocking for sure

I guess some of us were lucky enough to be there during that 22 years and it's as simple as that!!

Mick Edwards has kindly allowed his superb copy of the "Windsor Safari Park" to be scanned for display on the site. There is no date shown in the guide unfortunately, but from the look of the cars going into the safari park, it is probably in the 1970s.

The Kids' Fort was still doing business in the late 1980s and so were the giraffes, so it's nice to know that SOME THINGS stayed the same for a while.

Actually this page is one of my favourites of the whole guide

Look at those locations!

> The arrival kiosks

> The Fort

> The top level restaurant

> The Souvenirs shop

All those locations, I just loved to pieces, they survived to the end in one form or another, but this page shows them in the start up condition

CLASSIC, simply classic!!

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