Grimsby (Beechfield) Zoo lions 1930s

An original 1930s photograph. The lions look rather sad, unsurprisingly.

Beechfield Zoo was located on College Street, Grimsby, off Bargate. The Zoo was owned by Albert Sutcliffe and his head keeper was John Haith who later established Haith’s bird seed company. The Zoo opened in 1928 and closed in 1939.

A photo taken c1930s by S. J. Warren. Stanley J. Warren was an excellent and prolific photographer in the Grimsby/Immingham area, especially in the 1920s and 1930s. His address was 225 Hainton Avenue, Grimsby earlier in the 1930s and 53 Ainslie St., Grimsby by later in the 1930s.

Stanley Warren was born c1889. He came from Eastbourne. Stanley married Elizabeth Lingard in Grimsby, during WWII, in 1944 and he died in Grimsby in 1963, aged 72.