Manchester Zoological Gardens competed with the zoo that opened in what year, also in Manchester?
Manchester Zoological Gardens:  The gardens competed with John Jennison's Belle Vue Zoological Gardens opened three years earlier, but the venture was commercially unsuccessful and closed in 1842. Belle Vue Zoological Gardens: Belle Vue Zoological Gardens was a large zoo, amusement park, exhibition hall complex and speedway stadium in Belle Vue, Manchester, England, opened in 1836.
1836