London Zoo asks public to contribute to its 200th anniversary

Ahead of its 200th anniversary, London Zoo is asking people who might have old objects from the zoo to contribute to a new exhibition it is planning.
Archival image of London Zoo keeper Wally Styles beside a Bactrian camel; London Zoo, 1929 (c) Bond / ZSL.
The Zoological Society, the organisation behind what was to become London Zoo, was founded in April 1826 and was able to buy a small triangle of land just inside Regents Park. Just two years later, in April 1828, they opened the world’s