Bellvue Zoo Belfast 1941

Denise Weston Austen -better known as the “elephant angel” – rescued the calf [Sheila]  from Belfast zoo and kept it at her home on Whitewell Road in the north of the city when we were being bombed by the luftwafein the 1941 Blitz.

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