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MEMORIES: Glasgow curlers break the ice at Scotland’s first rink
 
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Glasgow's Charing Cross looked a touch different as we look along Sauchiehall Street back in 1984 at the infamous
Glasgow's Charing Cross looked a touch different as we look along Sauchiehall Street back in 1984 at the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere", which is now home to an office block
 

THESE keen curlers enjoy a game at the Crossmyloof Ice Rink at Titwood Road in the South Side.

The rink measured 225ft by 97ft and had seating for 2000 people to watch the action, while murals adorned the walls of the spectators' gallery.

Opened in 1907, it was Scotland's first ice rink and even had a bandstand on legs in the middle of the ice to entertain skaters.

Home to the Glasgow Dynamos ice hockey team, the rink thrived for more than 70 years until increased running costs eventually forced its closure.

It was demolished in the 1980s and a supermarket has since been built on the site.

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Publication date 08/05/08
Posted by: People Power, Glasgow on 10:02pm Fri 9 May 08

On the subject of Ice Rinks, the way in which their gradual demise has transpired, combined with kids, gangs and youth disorder potentially being allowed to increase is disappointing.

We've lost Crossmyloof ; The Summit Centre ; The St Enoch Centre Ice Rink ; and kids who went ice-skating for fun at the weekend back then were the lucky ones.

Now the equivalent sports and facilities - i.e. skiing at X-Scape are alot more expensive & not available to those of all incomes.

Like the multi-cinema complexes which have taken over the likes of the ABC Cinema on Sauchiehall Street, and Odeon on Renfield Street. They at least had their own style, class, and were less about the huge revenues earned from the UK multiplexes we now have.

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