Sir Joseph Banks Hotel Zoological Gardens (William Beaumont) in Australia


Sir Joseph Banks Hotel Zoological Gardens (William Beaumont)


Typezoo
OwnerWilliam Beaumont
Founded1850
Place Botany
StateNew South Wales
Country Australia
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Sir Joseph Banks Hotel Zoological Gardens (William Beaumont), in Botany, New South Wales, Australia , was founded in 1850.


Comments / picturesIn the late 1840s, the Sir Joseph Banks Hotel opened on the north shore of Botany Bay. To attract Sydney\'s pleasure-seekers on weekends and public holidays, William Beaumont and James Waller opened a pleasure garden and open-air amphitheatre adjacent to the hotel. Malcoms Royal Australian Circus ringmaster, Henry Burton, spent six weeks breaking in riders and horses. Two thousand people witnessed the inaugural performance at Botany Bay on Boxing Day, 1850.

The Sir Joseph Banks Hotel was a popular hotel on the shores of Botany Bay. By 1850, a private zoo had been established there and visitors could go horse riding, play cricket and football. The hotel, which was built in stages from 1840, is now listed on the Register of the National Estate.

At various times, the collection of animals included an elephant, a royal Bengal tiger, a Himalayan black bear and other Species of bears, and wolves, many of them novelties to the 'currency' lads and lasses who had grown up in the colony.

In June 1851, the Royal Saxon arrived from Calcutta carrying a young elephant Charlesworth had procured for Beaumont and Waller. [26] Although the wild and exotic animals displayed at Botany Bay were not part of the circus performance presented by Malcom\'s troupe, their presence was nevertheless prophetic. Later in the century, itinerant Australian circus proprietors borrowed the American idea of attaching menageries of 'wild beasts' to their travelling companies. From these sideshows, some animals – such as lions, tigers and elephants – were eventually integrated into the circus performance.

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Koehl, Dan (2024). Sir Joseph Banks Hotel Zoological Gardens (William Beaumont), Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=2467. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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