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Curling
Alnwick Curling Pond
55.420659, -1.715612
Alnwick
Opened:
c1880s
Closed:
20th c
Preserved
Condition:
Home Teams/Clubs:
Last Updated:
3 Dec 2024
Alnwick Curling Club
HER Description
NEHL - Alnwick featured its own curling pond from around the 1880s, and is still extant near the Canongate Bridge on the north side. The first mention of the Alnwick Curlers is in 1881, though notes it had "awoke from its slumbers and entered on a new lease of life", indicating it had been around for at least a year or two. They met with the Berwick club off the train in the January of 1881 marking its first recorded match though north of the Tweed and not here. It appears however that after this it again fell dormant. A piece in the Alnwick Guardian of 06/02/1886 from an anonymous writer wonders why there was "not a sufficient number in the town to form a good curling club", and understand there is "the remnant of one, which had some good practice a few years ago".
It appears the pond was used intermittently, and recreationally thereon as there is little mention other than the labelling on the Ordnance Survey maps themselves. The pond however is still extant though not used for curling.
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