REAL WINTER IN ENGLAND
THOUSANDS GO TO SKATE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, December 6. Thousands spent the week-end on ice everywhere in the country. It is the first time for years that such great areas have been open for public skating. Special trains were necessity to convoy skaters to the Lake District, and the traffic on 45 acres of ice on the Ruislip Reservoir, Middlesex; had to he regulated. The police estimated that 3000 people were skating simultaneously. Several instances of thaw occurred, and the police warned off skaters.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12314, 8 December 1925, Page 7
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