QUEEN'S MOTEL DOLPHINARIUM - CLIFTONVILLE - MARGATE: 1970 - ??

The dolphinarium was situated the converted swimming pool of a former Butlin's Hotel. As well as the dolphinarium at Cliftonville the company Queens Entertainments Ltd ran a number of seasonal dolphinariums at Skegness, West Midland Safari Park , Southend on Sea and for one season in 1971 a show at Salonika in Greece. It also toured dolphins in shows in public swimming pools the midlands, north of England and Bristol. In 1974 the dolphinarium also house four dolphins belonging to Aquatic Mammal Enterprises which in that summer supplied the last dolphin display to Cleethropes Zoo. The company also supplied one or more dolphins for one summer season display in the ninteen-sevenies to Flamingo Park Zoo. At one time Queens Entertainments had business conections with Marine Mammals International. The Hotel was demolished in the late 1970s