† Alice is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died at Ringlands Circus (Big Tom Fossett), in United Kingdom, .
Alice was born wild 1925?.
Alice was the last of the Sanger elephants. 1941 : Circus Proprietors have complained that meat rationing arrangements do not provide sufficient food for carnivorous animals like lions and tigers. The Government’s answer was to ban all dangerous animals from public performances, because they might break free during an air-raid. This was the last straw for the 140 year old Lord John Sanger’s Circus. The blackout, labour shortage, food rationing, and now the ban on performing animals means they can no longer continue. At an auction, Annie, their famous 50 year old elephant, was sold to Belle Vue Zoo, Manchester for 50 guineas; Alice, her 16 year old companion, went to rival Tom Fossett’s Circus for 90 guineas.Mike Sanger He bought the elephant Alice from the 1941 “Lord” John Sanger sale. I think she probably died in 1948 or ’49. He put her up for sale along with Salt and Sauce – the former Lockhart elephants – according to an advert in the World’s Fair in 1948. Dennis Fossett, “Long” Tom’s son, who worked the elephants along with Abdul Karim, said that she got out at the winter quarters and drunk some cold water, which gave her Colic and this is how she died. I suspect this was the winter of ’48/49. I do know more about the Sanger elephants, but I would have to look up my notes at home. You know there is a Liver Fluke that elephants can catch, which was called Dochmius Sangeri after “Lord” George Sanger lost one entire Group of elephants to the disease. I have fond childhood memories of Sanger’s Circus in its latter years (late ‘50s) and I also visited the winter quarters in Horley and have seen the original elephant barn with the rings in the floor. I also have a photo of the elephants leaving the barn along with the original Pimpo. Jimm Clubb
Circus Proprietors have complained that meat rationing arrangements do not provide sufficient food for carnivorous animals like lions and tigers. The Government’s answer was to ban all dangerous animals from public performances, because they might break free during an air-raid. This was the last straw for the 140 year old Lord John Sanger’s Circus. The blackout, labour shortage, food rationing, and now the ban on performing animals means they can no longer continue. At an auction, Annie, their famous 50 year old elephant, was sold to Belle Vue Zoo, Manchester for 50 guineas; Alice, her 16 year old companion, went to rival Tom Fossett’s Circus for 90 guineas.
He bought the elephant Alice from the 1941 “Lord” John Sanger sale. I think she probably died in 1948 or ’49. He put her up for sale along with Salt and Sauce – the former Lockhart elephants – according to an advert in the World’s Fair in 1948. Dennis Fossett, “Long” Tom’s son, who worked the elephants along with Abdul Karim, said that she got out at the winter quarters and drunk some cold water, which gave her Colic and this is how she died. I suspect this was the winter of ’48/49. I do know more about the Sanger elephants, but I would have to look up my notes at home. You know there is a Liver Fluke that elephants can catch, which was called Dochmius Sangeri after “Lord” George Sanger lost one entire Group of elephants to the disease. I have fond childhood memories of Sanger’s Circus in its latter years (late ‘50s) and I also visited the winter quarters in Horley and have seen the original elephant barn with the rings in the floor. I also have a photo of the elephants leaving the barn along with the original Pimpo.
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