Worthing’s Ice Rink

For the entire month of February and for the 1st March 2009, Worthing will have temporary ice rink in Steyne Gardens.

I went down today (partially for work related purposes to get some good photos) to see the ‘opening’ which had a lot of official sort of stuff. (You can see I know a thing or two about civic, umm, things…) The Mayor opened it, and then a few of the councillors also got their skates on and had a good old well cling to the side of the rink really (well not all of them)

Actually I have to say it was rather well done as 3 girls (from 7 to 16 I think) opened proceedings with a dazzling display on ice – they were seriously good – and then the councillors and various peeps got on the rink. I stayed nice and safe by just shooting away (used my second roll of Ektar 100) and will have hopefully got some rather good snaps.

It did get me thinking, Worthing could do with an ice rink, just as much as it could do with a new swimming pool. Financially things are up the spout as they seem to be in most places but it’s a good idea. I found this letter on The Argus’ website from Michael Donin (who too was skating quite well) which makes interesting reading.