大象传媒

Charlie Hewat, hilltop safari driver and former elephant keeper reminisces about getting the tram from the city centre to the zoo gates in the 1950s. He talks about the thrill of the zoo and getting a ride on the star attraction the big Indian Elephant, Sally. How the children would sit on her large howdah for a shilling a ride.

As a 19 year old Charlie returned to the zoo to be an elephant keeper. He remembers how the zoo director at the time, Gilbert Fisher, would walk a young cheetah, Scrap, around the zoo and even along the main street outside the zoo, Corstorphine Road, until one day a motor bike back fired and the cheetah took off.