Went to the old wildlife park looking for Mr Blobby's house, was surprised to find that a lot of the old wildlife park appears to have been abandoned, filmed most of it so made up this whistle stop tour of the park, might be of interest to you if you visited the park when the animals were there as you may be surprised how it look now!!!
The wildlife park closed in 2009, the animals were re-homed although we seem to remember there being some controversy over some animals being destroyed rather than re-homed!
From 2010 it was advertised as a Hotel and gardens that could be visited, the gardens appear to have only lasted a short while, the hotel and leisure complex is owned by Warner, the hotel is adults only.
If you go there now it's free to walk around the grounds but there is not much there, some signs of the old wildlife park remain but a lot of it it overgrown and not maintained, an award winning display garden with a sign saying 2010 is overgrown, a pond with waterfall is not working and contains stagnant water.
If you can remember the wildlife park you would be quiet sad to see how it is now, it's still a nice piece of countryside but nothing compared to what it was, it's a pity Warner Leisure Hotels decided to take this route with the park.
First time out with this video recorder (Panasonic HX-DC3), it suppose to have built in stabilisation but it does not appear to work very good so apologies for all the shaking!
