Summary
A Wild Childhood: Growing Up at Chester Zoo
When George Mottershead moved to Upton-by-Chester in 1930 to open a zoo without bars, his daughter June’s life became extraordinary. Her best friend was a chimpanzee named Mary, lion cubs and parrots filled the kitchen, and finding a bear in bed was normal. Pelican, penguin, or polar bear – they were family.
The Mottersheads faced obstacles. Shunned by the community, threatened by bankruptcy, and challenged by World War Two’s bombi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472226365 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472226364 |
| Author: | June Mottershead |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Headline Book Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 10 August 2015 |
| Weight: | 216g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 24mm |
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About The Author
June Mottershead
June Mottershead was born in June 1926 and from the age of 4 lived with the rest of her family at Chester Zoo started by her father in 1930. After working as a Land Girl in the latter stages of WW2 she returned to the zoo to become keeper of the aquarium. In 1949 she married Fred Williams who arrived as bear keeper in 1947. Apart from a break of five years in the fifties which they spent in Australia, June and her husband lived and worked at the zoo where they brought up their three children. A widow since 2012, June continues to live within a short walk of her childhood home.
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