This is wonderful, I swear one of the female skaters, in the line up, looked like Queen Elizabeth II. I had to stop and go back to check it wasn't. Lovely.
I'm guessing the third skater from the left as they pan along? That's Cecilia Colledge. I made a montage of her many years ago which shows her meeting The Queen in 1979 during the National Skating Association's (as was, it's now British Ice Skating) centenary exhibition at this very venue. ua-cam.com/video/eDLVM-Hjzwc/v-deo.html
Thank you so much for this. My skating coach was H Graham Sharp, men's 1939 world champion from Great Britain. Would you know anything about him? I know he was in a video playing tennis on the ice with 3 other. He was from Bournemouth and he father owned the Westover Ice Rink at one time.
Oh I do but I would always love to know more. As his pupil you would know more than most about him as a person. In my collection is his second place trophy from the 1936 world championships, one of my most treasured possessions. Unfortunately there just isn't that much film of him skating that has surfaced yet but I live in hope that more will turn up over time. I do have an audio recording of a radio interview he gave prior to the 1979 NSA centenary, along with John Curry and Cecilia Colledge. He sounded so interesting!
Thanks for this! The skating is lovely and we get to see how ice was resurfaced before the Zamboni was invented. Very interesting.
Lovely spin combinations!
Oh my! This is incredible! Thank you!! A live orchestra!
The catch foot and broken leg spins were great
The Zamboni machine was invented in 1949 and patented in 1953.
This is wonderful, I swear one of the female skaters, in the line up, looked like Queen Elizabeth II. I had to stop and go back to check it wasn't. Lovely.
I'm guessing the third skater from the left as they pan along? That's Cecilia Colledge. I made a montage of her many years ago which shows her meeting The Queen in 1979 during the National Skating Association's (as was, it's now British Ice Skating) centenary exhibition at this very venue. ua-cam.com/video/eDLVM-Hjzwc/v-deo.html
@@floskate Thank you, looking forward to your next post. And thank you for the link, she was really good, and lovely to see her with the Queen
Thank you so much for this. My skating coach was H Graham Sharp, men's 1939 world champion from Great Britain. Would you know anything about him? I know he was in a video playing tennis on the ice with 3 other. He was from Bournemouth and he father owned the Westover Ice Rink at one time.
Oh I do but I would always love to know more. As his pupil you would know more than most about him as a person. In my collection is his second place trophy from the 1936 world championships, one of my most treasured possessions. Unfortunately there just isn't that much film of him skating that has surfaced yet but I live in hope that more will turn up over time. I do have an audio recording of a radio interview he gave prior to the 1979 NSA centenary, along with John Curry and Cecilia Colledge. He sounded so interesting!
To think that was Wembley Stadium!