Oldest Ice Rink: Where Was the First Skate?
Eldridge Beier
2025-04-15 04:32:47
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In November 1841, Henry Kirk made the first, yet very small, artificial ice rink in Marylebone. Kirk scaled up his ‘Substitute for Ice’ to a 3000 ft Glaciarium that was launched in 1842 at the Baker Street Bazaar on Portman Square. In 1876, inventor John Gamgee opened the first permanent, mechanically frozen ice rink on the King’s Road in Chelsea.
Marianna Kuvalis
2025-04-15 03:28:41
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The world's first artificial ice rink was made in London in December 1841. The very small ice rink, measuring just 12ft by 6ft, was created in the most unlikeliest of places: in a seed-room in the grounds of a nursery near Dorset Square. The third rink, with 'a surface of 3,000 feet' was opened at the Baker Street Bazaar in Portman Square in 1844. This was the wonderfully named Glaciarium, decorated with painted alpine scenery, and featuring live music to skate by, courtesy of a resident 'promenade band'.
The world's first mechanically frozen ice rink was opened by John Gamgee in a tent within a gentleman's club, just off the King's Road in Chelsea, on 7 January 1876. In March, the latest Glaciarium moved to a permanent venue at 379 King's Road, where a rink measuring 40ft by 24ft (12.2m by 7.3m) was established.
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