MARINELAND - MORECAMBE: 1964 - 1990

Billed as Europe's first oceanarium Marineland was the brain child of zoo-man Robert Jackson owner of the Welsh Mountain Zoo in Colwyn Bay North Wales in partnership with George Cansdale - former Superintendent at London Zoo and owner of Natureland Marine Zoo on Skegness sea-front. They setup Marineland with a company called Marineland Ltd and opened the aquarium in 1964. Unfortunately they had financial difficulties and were taken over by Morecambe Council a year or so later. The council ran Marineland for a large part of it's early operational life. In 1977 the aquarium was acquired by Don Robinson Holdings owners of Scarborough Marineland and Zoo and various other attractions and in 1983 it was bought Ocean World (Marine) Ltd. It closed in 1990 and the site was demolished some years later.