Denise Austin elephants in United Kingdom

Denise Austin
Type	private

Owner
Address	Whitewall Road
Place	Belfast
Region	Northern Ireland
Country	United Kingdom

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Record history
History of updates	2011-10-17

Latest document update	2020-10-30 07:03:11

Description

Denise Austin elephants, located at Whitewall Road, in Belfast, United Kingdom .

Comments / picturesThe baby elephant Sheila dodged the death list in Belfast Zoo and was re-housed by a woman who lived near the zoo and kept her in a back garden. The identity of the adoptive parent is a mystery. She was known only as "the elephant angel".
Who gave a home to elephant Sheila?, 2009-03-23

Denise Austin kept the calf, called Shiela, at her home on the Whitewell Road when Belfast was being bombed in the blitz of 1941. [...] Ms Austin died in 1997.
Baby elephant kept in Belfast backyard is inspiration for book

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Koehl, Dan (2025). Denise Austin, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=1971. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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