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A History of the County of Oxford
… also, during the regular winter floods, for boating and skating. 90 OTHER MEADOWS West of Oseney, between the stream …
Old and New London
… the year 1845, was started a field of artificial ice for skating, but it did not take with the public, and was soon …
Old and New London
… HotelLangham PlaceThe Portland Bazaar, or German GalleryA Skating RinkThe Royal Polytechnic InstitutionCavendish … were taken for the purpose of forming a large first-class "skating-rink," and the necessary alterations were at once …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 63 One behind the Princess Royal was converted into a skating rink in 1875. 64 Paddington Bowling and Sports Club … canal was the subject of a cartoon c. 1800. 66 A roller skating rink, said to be the first in London, was opened on … for Paddington recreation ground. 69 Maida Vale Roller Skating Palace & Club was licensed from 1909 until 1912. The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… widely used. The round of work was enlivened by winter skating on Otmoor, by sheep-shearing and harvest feasts, …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… art of coarse fishing. Bury Fen is a name well known in skating literature, and claims to be the home of 'bandy,' … still a popular resort, whenever a frost gives a chance of skating. Earith Bulwarks have already been described. They … Acct. of Bedford Level, p. 196. Cal. Pat. 142229, p. 549. Skating (Badminton Lib.) p. 430. V.C.H. Hunts. i, 311. …
A History of the County of Surrey
… the sheet of water on Earlswood Common as a bathing and skating pond. St. John's (national) school was built in 1846, …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… nearly drowning through the ice breaking under him while skating on one of the ponds at Stillington. It was to him …