And, and actually right now we are okay financially. And they were fi they were okay financially up until, up until really the early fifties when so much else was available in the way of days out for the, the London and surrounding public. And of course the late fifties, early sixties, with the advent of many, many more privately owned motor cars, London, London City, in its broadest sense geographically had had many, many more things to offer. And so London’s fortunes in the sixties began to fail, and attendance started going down from 2 million towards about about 1.2, 1.3 million. Not helped, as I said, with the advent of the science institutions, which which were great. They were a great way and very, and today really vital because their, their agendas now are totally focused on field conservation, not on, you know, originally solely saw them very much as sort of by much more sort of anatomical and physiological experimental institutions with or without animals on site. I mean, they didn’t use zoo animals, but there were quite a lot of animals in those. But they were draining a lot of the funding from the society.
