The History of Defunct Marine Mammal Parks

Flamginoland's dolphins arrived in c.1968. Dolphins named Betty, Lotty, Sharky and Sooty (after the famous children's character) all performed at the park at some point during it's existence. The dolphin exhibit closed in 1993 and was the last of the UK's dolphinarium's to close.

Here is a video from the film "The Fruit Machine" of the dolphins at Flamingoland: the three dolphins seen in this film (Lottie, Betty and Sharky) are all still alive, living at a European Dolphinarium. (in Sweden I think.)

(Video courtesy of John Dineley's youtube channel.)

The old dolphin pool can be seen in these videos:

(at the beginning) http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=44081

And the beginning of this one too: (it also shows cleethorpes marineland)

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=2155

They also had a killer whale for a while:

The first part of this video shows what looks to be flamingoland's original dolphin pool:

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=44081

*I do not own the photos/videos, no copyright infringement intended.*