Save Roller World Roller Skate Rink - Colchester
Posted by Katie on 1st Nov 2022
#SaveRollerworldRollerworld needs your help. Add your Voice HereRollerworld is a roller skating rink in Colchester that have been hosting roller discos, laser quests and more for the past 32 years. It is with great sadness that they will have to close their doors on the 30th November 2022 due to unreasonable demands being made by their landlord.According to Rollerworld, it
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65 years of Love and Roller Skating with Ron and Terri
Posted by RollBack on 1st Oct 2015
At a skating rink in 1948 the romance began. Ron and Terri Cornell and as the years roll on, the wheels of love are still turning.Marking their 65th Anniversary at Rollerworld in Colchester, Ron and Terri reminisce how they first met each other at Butlins roller rink in Skegness when Terri was a Red Coat.Now 84, Terri recalls how she initially shrugged off his advances only to
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History of Roller Skating
Posted by RollBack on 6th Jan 2015
Roller skating historyToday we’ll
find out the history that lies behind the great roller skates so let's talk
about roller skating and when it started:In 1743
the first recorded use of roller skates, in London stage performance. The
inventor is still unknown.In 1760
the first recorded skate invention, by John Joseph Merlin, who created a
primitive inline skate with small
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