An old photograph of June playing with two lion cubs. A woman whose childhood friends included a lion, chimpanzee and polar bear has revealed her incredible family scrapbook more than 80 years after her dad opened the UKs biggest zoo. June Williams, 87, daughter of Chester Zoos original owner, George Mottershead, has unveiled her incredible childhood pictures as she revisits her family life in a new BBC drama. June moved into Oakfield House, Chester, Cheshire, with her mother Lizzie Mottershead and sister Muriel in 1930 when her father snapped up the small area of land for £3,500. They had only one gibbon and two goats when they moved in on December 7, 1930 but more than 80 years on, the zoo now boasts a whopping collection of 11,000 animals from 400 different species. (Photo by Mercury Press/Caters News/SIPA Press)

Limelight (Susie Streetwalker, Ellen Kennedy, Nick Egan and Johnny Dynel), NY, 1983. (Photo by Ken Schles)

A miniature monorail engine built by C Skelton for rural transport. 24th August 1932. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Models sitting on a coffin filled with ice at the Festival Gardens, 1951. They each took turns to lie in the coffin, dressed only in swimming costumes. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Assen Ivanov Giorgiev, a Bulgarian who weighs 256 kilos with a height of 2.8 metres, poses next to a car far too small for him. He started a career as a boxer and wrestler, but can no longer find an opponent willing to challenge him. 22nd September 1965. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Two women with a pet kitten outside the ruins of their shop in the village of Wagenberg, Netherlands, November 1944. (Photo by Horace Abrahams/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

School children on a trip to London Zoo stop for a beverage break. Fi-Fi the chimpanzee is happy to join in. 28th May 1936. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Domestic bliss, a boxer and kitten share a saucer of milk. 13th September 1972. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Two servicewomen admiring a tattoo by the Aldershot tattoo artist, Jessie Knight, the only female tattooist at work. 15th December 1951. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Students at Brooklyn School of Automotive Trades and members of the Automotive Custom Crafters Club are pledged to provide honest service to the motoring public without charge, circa 1956. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

J. Nesfield is tangled in a four-bar gate after his pony 'Sweet William' refused the jump, 9th September 1938. They were competing in the juvenile section at the British Show Jumping Association's first members' show at Maidenhead, Berkshire. (Photo by Fred Morley/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

File photo dated 21/04/66 of Pattie Boyd in London's West End wearing a mini skirt, as the British designer Mary Quant, widely credited with popularising the mini skirt has recalled its “feeling of freedom and liberation” 50 years after she took the fashion world by storm. Quant, who named the skirt after her favourite make of car, said she “couldn't have imagined” in 1964 that it would become a staple of women's clothing, but added: “It seemed then to be obvious, and so right”. (Photo by PA Wire)

This is a August 1, 1940 file photo provided by the British government, Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill tries a Tommy Gun during a visit to north-east England. Churchill Britain's famous World War II prime minister died fifty years ago on January 24 1965. The background behind Churchill has been blotted out by the censor. (Photo by AP Photo/British Official Photo)