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Wilson's Zoo There are 5 messages in this section. Jim Jamieson from Larbert. Posted 15 Mar 2005. I'm surprised few folk believe there was a zoo in the centre of Glasgow namely in Oswald Street. I paid many visits to it when I was young and later I purchased mice from their pet shop. The result of this acquisition was many offspring which I sold back to Wilson's for sixpence each. Whether they sold them or fed them to their snakes is anybody's guess Elspeth Sinclair from Spain. Posted 16 Jan 2006. When I was a child I regularly visited Oswald Street zoo and the saddest day was when my grandfather's maid Mary Robertson went there with us to sell her monkey Danny after it had bitten her 80 year old father. We went back to visit Danny a week later and all the other monkeys were pelting him with food so Mary bought him back and we took him to the vet to be put to sleep. May from Cuthbert. Posted 6 Mar 2006. It is wonderful to hear of someone else who knew of the zoo. My dad used to take me there some week-ends. There was Bert Wilson's pet store in the Saltmarket. Was he related to owners of wilson's zoo? Norrie Ross from Bellshill. Posted 6 Mar 2006. I remember going there at lunchtimes from school. There was a mangy old lion there and the place had a generally run down and shabby feel about it. I am not certain butI think there may have been an old cinema commissionaire at the door. Look into Our Glasgow Story website, you'll enjoy it. James Tuck from Tennessee. Posted 16 Oct 2006. I came from Springburn,I can remember the stink,the lion. and the giant rat.

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