Outdoor Ice Skating and Races
The photographs below come from the old photograph album which you can read more about HERE
They date to about 1908 and could show some Fen skating or they may show skating on ‘Skaters Meadow’ which was between Newnham and Grantchester in Cambridge - either way these are pictures of official skating races. They could be from elsewhere altogether as the old photograph album contained pictures from Cambridge and London. The best hope to identify these photograph below is to see if any of the skaters shown are well known and to see if the racing was covered in the press at the time.
You’ll see in the last picture that there is even a police man on duty - wearing his ice skates!
The barrel is there for the skaters to race around and is called the Barrel Turn.