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OMG LINDY ,
Ask them if they remember Norman ,

Poor Les , that was sad .
Karen
Hi Karen.
My name is Mike and i have stumbled on this thread by accident , i was looking for information on the Silver blades and thats how i got to contacting you , i joind the forum in order to contact you and pick your brains, Karen... would you mind me asking you what did happen to Les? , i remember him very well as i used to work at the rink on saturday mornings , i used to work on the upkeep of the building which meant evrything from painting to plastering , les was a very careful guy with his money and i do remember how difficult it was to get him to pay me , it was a cash deal ( ?5.00) per day , if i did not ask him for it he would not freely give it. I also remember his two beautiful blond daughters , they were great figure skaters and good fun to be with. Agnes used to run the skate shop , she was a first class lady and i often wonder where she eneded up and how she is now. I also used to be there to watch the Leopards practice , on one occaision i witnessed an awfull accident where one player hit a slapshot across the rink and the puck left the ice and made full contact with the eye/cheeckbone of a player who was known as Rollo , the injury was sickening to see and the guy who hit the shot was getting terrible grief from everyone who was there. There also used to be some other people who i know, a couple of speed skaters who were very very well known for anitcs on ice , big Jimmy and little beady , jimmy used to catapult Beady skyward from a transfer... god knows how they come to learn that trick but it was cool to watch. Anther lad who was well known was called Brian Riley , he used to barrel jump about ten to fifteen people !!!! he never failed to clear them , anther member of the Riley family ( Carl ) used to drive the Zambonie to re-surface the ice.

As you can see i have some good memories of the place and of the great people who made it so memorable after all these years , but in all honesty its Les i remember the most as he was quite a good guy who kept the rink going all those years , i remember the time when the rink was facing closure and he wanted the counsil to take ot over... sadly it never happened and the rink got torn down , that for me was quite a sad thing to see as it happens too much to buildings these days and often is the case where the grounds are not developed for years , there are thousands of people who had a ball at the rink when it was in its heyday , i am just one of them.

Please can you tell me what you know of the Williams family today as its been about 28 years since i worked there.

Very best regards.

Mike.