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yes indeed - and thanks again for chatting on here Sas, I will let you know how the Legoland "plan" progresses, see you and CHOWE CHOWE
thanks all great fun going back in time only wish I could get hold of Bruce from the dolphinarium he's out in Tyland some where so one day we will catch up i've spoken to Martin Tez and and Paul from tigers so great to catch up with them thanks again Malcolm
so thank you very much for being in attendance this morning Sas, this chat was really to focus on the new Dolphinarium page that is under construction, but we had a good chat in any event, looking back on the good old days is great fun and now we have a plan for a "tour" as you have suggested
yes they taught me to Dive there clean the glass and the bottom of the pool the dolphins would come round and tow us round the pool it was awesome and great fun for them
yes that was the Hotest summer in 75/76 I think it was a bloody nightmare we had the Baboon Gates open and both Eletric gates open all the Tiger and Lion and cheeta gates open I have never seen so many people that was the year the park had a record turn over and all the brothers got new roll's ok for some
one of your posts last year
haha corker of a post that one Sas, love thatSas wrote:Hi All well talking of Queues I remember as will every one else there we opened one Bank Holiday monday and from 9am in the morning till 7pm at night it was non stop through the reserves all the gates had to be open and every one worked like dog's that day the park had never been so busy Ginger and the crew in Cats were at it all day trying to keep the Lions from going through the open gates it was manic I think Tez and the boy's did the most show's in the Dolphinarum ever and every one crashed out down the bar later to a few well deserved pints/gallons lol, if the park was open today it would be the best in Europe as the smarts wouldn't have it any other way, but my god the expence of running a place like that now Ouch.
yeah? haha which one? 
so next year .... it will be 20 years ... since the close down - have you seen the anniversary calendar that we have released?
so next year .... it will be 20 years ... since the close down - have you seen the anniversary calendar that we have released?I never new this place exsisted untill I found Facebook and I listed one of my jobs My Best Job as working at Royal Windsor Safari Park
infact I will text them now and see if they can mail them to me this afternoon may be able to up-load them tomorrow
Sas you joined the site at the end of 2007 but the site has been running since 2003, what took you so long to join us? 
including the ruined house? in one topic you said
gotta say I have heard a lot about this ruined house but never seen itSas wrote:I have some upto date photo's of the Park and you can hardly see the white house for all the trees and shrubs ect, ect, it's unreal I know were 20 odd years down the road or is that 30 lol but it has changed so much, but there are area's in the park that have not changed as I think Malc has had a guided tour round the place and you go through a gate and it's like going back in time, id love a good look round to see what's still there and to see the old runined house at the top of the park would be cool, I'l add the photo's this weekend if I get the chance and you'll see what I mean about change.
indeed, John Jeffries was a goldmine of WSP info too, he was a pleasure to chat to on the way round, sadly soon after that all communication dived
Yes no probs 07736461264 I could go and have a look and see if it's worth it it could be very up setting for all of us but a good walk round and see what lego has done would be intresting
I think that is one of the reasons the smarts got out the cash input needed was massive as the plumbing was old in the dolphinarium so a much neededd up date
re the "guided tour" you're after Sas are you prepared to give your mobile phone no? I haven't got a mobile but this is a case where a mobile fits the bill, if I give them your mobile maybe we can get John Jeffries (if he's still there) to bell us as and when he's on tea break
if they had more land it would be very different they needed more in there to bring the public in it was always busy but there could have been more
jesus christ, here okay I'll tell you what I'll do, I will ring Up Legoland and try and find out if they will let us do a guided tour as you say Sas but is there anything left to do a guided tour on? that is the question, could be a depressing day out my friend
as for Accidents my friend was riding his bike past the park and a car load of greek prests turned right into him it cost him his leg not nice but when he came to the prest was giving him the last rights very scary
yeah but Leogoland is a totally other place, what a nightmare, who would have thought WSP would only last TWENTY YEARS? you couldn't make it up
one thing forgot to say I came past the Park the other night and there were car's tailed back into Windsor it was just like being back in the 70/80's with every one trying to get in there
a car turning right into a petrol station just went straight into me, I was on the main road!
Bike's and Hot Rod's I have a Triumph Rocket 3 its a 3 cylinder 2300cc and pulls like a train it weighs 320Kilos but as i'm still a growing lad I can cope
well in one topic "twentieth anniversary of the close down" you replied
don't know if the old cat reserves are still there Sas, unfortunately since I did a guided tour back there in 2003 we have sadly lost contact with our Legoland expert John Jeffries, is there anyone else at Legoland who could assist in this regard? we need somebody on the inside! back in 2003 I went to Legoland with a taperecorder (should have been a video camera but I didn't have one) and held an interview/ roam around with original site member John Jeffries god bless him, it was brilliantSas wrote:How about a Reunion at the Park/Lego Land, a guided tour of the place including the old cat reserves, and a look at the old runied house out the back of the park
I know it would be great to have a park reunion at the park we could have a guided tour of the whole place and see what we can see
nor me, Sas you list in your profile your interests as Hot Rods, Harleys, Animals, Moto GP, World Superbike, Drag Racing and Travel, is that in order? which is your biggest passion right now?
funny really as this site is for everone and it will be great to get everyones names on photo's I couldn't even name most of the animals lol
I have no photo's could never afford a camera I know there's a few of me in my younger day's and id love to see more tez has the most photo's but there's still alot out there
apart from adding photos to the gallery there is another aspect to it, members can ADD comments to the photos (any photos) but most seem reluctant to even do that 
yes they should they need to share them with every one it brings back great memorys of the place
about the GALLERY : well I can't say that I like all the photos that other members have uploaded to it 
but some members just will not upload their photos to it Sas do you think they should?
but some members just will not upload their photos to it Sas do you think they should?Sas in one post that you added at the end of last year you said
you invite a new mamber Nik to add photos, well we do have a forums gallery LINKED IN with the forums, have you seen it?Sas wrote:Welcome NiK, The Education Centre had only been up and running a while when I was there what year were you there ? it was a great place, do you have any photo's if so please add them so we can all enjoy them.
anyway let's go to the second of the images on the wd40 page Sas, any thoughts? Smartie, Cookie, Flipper, Honey, Sugar, Speedy, Snappy? was that the lot? seven dolphins and one killer whale? which killer whale was it at that time? Tez's all time fave was Ramu but was it Ramu at the time of this brochure? (the brochure doesn't actually say)
i'm going down there soon as I want to see the how the Last performing Elphant is doing they raised alot of dosh to look after her
talking about Longleat, have you seen that programme on BBC2 Sas? everyday it's on - daytime TV
Brighton was run by Dave and Sue who worked at RWSP it was good but very small and not very busy you need a place within a safari park to make it pay look how busy chester zoo is and Longleat
hehe I never visited another "Seaworld"/ Dolphinarium.... just shows you, you only know what you've got when it's gone
that would be hard it could be done but you'd need some one like the Chealse boss with his kind of money to invest to build the right place
in one topic "Can Dolphinariums make a comeback in the UK?" you replied
well thinking about the UK right now Sas, DO WE HAVE A DOLPHINARIUM anything like Windsor Safari Park had 1970 - 1992??Sas wrote:If it did happen and I for one would love to see them back in the Uk, it would have to be built to the US Speck and 2 to 3 times the size of WSP Pool size, it sure would be good to see a state of the art facilite for Dolphins and whales in the UK.
back to the Big Top and TV it was very big by then and was run down in the Winters quarters in Winkfild
I won't take it away from them they new there were on to a good thing with the park and it was very well run
yes a very busy place we'd clock on at around 07.50 and still be there at 7 at night you had to be fit to play there
yes i'm not sure how much they got but the brothers all got new Rolls Royce so must have been good
I don't think they sold it becuase of that, I think they sold it to make a tidy profit! which they did!!
David Taylor talks about the mammoth costs looming for "Seaworld" as it was then, even the electricity bill for filtering the water was going to be massive, this itself was a big clue as to future crippling costs, did you know David Taylor Sas?Sas wrote:The expense of up-grading the Park and the Dolphinarium it was going to cost the earth and would have been a Monster task, you would need a Billionair to take it on with very deep pockets you can only imagine how much it would cost today and you need a real Marineland like in the US to get the crowds in to pay for it all.
it seems to me that if you were there when the Smarts owned it - and that is basically from "the start" you were probably there when this brochure about "The dolphinarium" was on sale!!
Sas in a recent post on the site you said
well the Smarts owned it 1969 - 1973 am I right?I was there when the Smarts owened it and it was the best years when they sold up they new what was coming and jumped ship
I have received apologies for absence from Eddy Powell, he is on his way to sunny Bedford as we speak so have a good one Eddy!
we are here to talk about the new page under construction http://www.nationaltraffic.co.uk/wd40.html at the moment, we just have pages kindly scanned by Eddy Powell from his latest "Dolphinarium" brochure printed 1971
anyway I would like to thank you eddy for making it along to this chat session, it has been a pleasure hearing your memories of the early years CHEERS MY FRIEND and good night
yes i often look at site, shame more don't get involved more, by the numbers tonight says that, i have put done a book about my life, it you have a e.mail address not a site address and i am not i.t. savvy, i will send you the chapters about windsor and you can post it on the site
I was never employed, Ilived round the corner in Chobham,my kids were aged 3 and 5, we came often sometimes 3 or 4 times A WEEK
can just picture it AWESOME, more morebut one or two ran away after half an hore and left us to sort out one holy mess with cars stuck
yes those were the days, and yes i was lucky looking back to have had my time there, grass is always greener
apart from me tim and angus, we needed two others to cover the lock gates and two in resurve, and one on day off, so i used to get some tossers sent from the dole office in windsor none lasted more then a week most only one day, i would put the in the lock gate huts to brake them in slowly but one or two ran away after half an hore and left us to sort out one holy mess with cars stuck
ok so you went back twice and you were not impressed but discounting the baboon reserve, think about your two visits, which areas of the park interested you the most? which were best in your view?
yes we fired at the start once they started raiding the coaches, but once they new the drill a well aimed rock was just as good for a time
yes i went back twice, i was not inpressed, i think i was there at the best time as after that it seemed as if it could not make up it's mind what it wanter to be
in the early days when i took over we had shot guns, then some old lady's complained so we went to bull whips, some little old lady's complaind so we were tols to use 5 foot staves, , thought that would not stop a male hamadrus babboon so another reason to leave, six months later i heard they had gone back to whips. tossers
tez worked in the seaworld dolphinarium big time, anything planned, well I suppose no is the answer, there is a thread
the tv show one by one by the book david taylor did was my time and a lot of the show showed the bloke meant to be me in my wooly hat
do you ever hear anything about doug catlage who was the dolphin trainer?, not good on names after nearly 40 years what section was he in
Windsor Safari Park closed on Sunday, 25 October 1992. The 144 acre (58ha) site in Windsor Great Park, which opened in 1970, went into receivership along with its owners, Themes International, which owed about £40M.
i was brought down from twycross zoo to work the elephants that were comming, but on my first day the babboon forman jacked so jimmy said i have to take his job till he found some one else, after 9 months i was still there and the first lot on 6 baby elephant were sold on-route to usa and i was going to be stuck with the babboons so left
we had the cars coaches , jimmy mc nab was head ranger and it was getting pretty hairy at times so i guess that would at least stop the coaches after i left
yes it was very good for then and as it was new the grass etc was quite good, then whilst i was there they brought in the voltures
eddypowell wrote:i will be online and ready hoping to chat to some old freinds who might remember me, I was the seconed Baboon resurve forman,
is there ever anybody there?trying to get in touch with any of the old crowd who were around between 83 and 86...i used to be in the dolphinarium with jimmy shaw, dave lindsay etc.love to hear from any ex employees who were at the park then and may or may not remember me
George worked in the Lion Reserve for many years untill one day the Lions had him he was draged into one of the den's but lucky for him Musty drove the Landrover stright into the thing and beat the crap out of them with his bare hands and saved him it was a sight to behold and he was one lucky man, George moved up to London and worked in a Hotel but i've never heard from him since.
right i'm off mate got to do some work Bummer lol take care Malc i'm back here next saturday regards Sassy Big Boy
malc is it true that Ginger passed on do you know what happened to Dot his wife, last time I saw them was up at Chessington Zoo
yep i've mailed Tez a few times but he's not come back to me hope he's ok when he did reply he didn't sound to healthy to me I was going to go and see him but he never came back so will try and see him this year
i'm the Security Supervisor for BMW Financial Services at Hook so just on Reception today easy as the phones have been down all morning
I just covered day's there but as I hung about with Bruce and Martin and Tez I got to do a lot of swimming and diving so great fun
and I was there when George got attacked by the Lions now that was not pretty the lion had bit the front of his forhead off and it was just hanging there
Francis managed to get the guy in the mini van but it was too late bloody shame he'd just got engaged to one of the Pan's People girls
yes next to the baboon reserve if I was in the bus coming back to work from Bracknell when you came down the hill you could see the lions and baboons
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