mo 27 Feb 2023 | A belated RIP for the Kansas City Bomber (doubled by Judy Arnold) who died the Wednesday before last.
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mo 20 Feb 2023 | Postcards old and new do tend to grab the comedic effect of people falling over especially as early roller skates had no toe stops. Though this charming Edwardian set is no different it also observes that children are frequently much better skaters than adults ... 
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sa 4 Feb 2023 | The sunlit uplands of roller derby when it was newly born in the UK.  |
th 12 Jan 2023 | A while back we were told there are four roller derby banked tracks in the USA. Once upon a time you could get specific training for banked track.
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th 15 Dec 2022 |  Christmas looms, the John Lewis ad recalls our attempt to relearn roller skating and the Brandeston panto Alice in Winterland. is Sunday afternoon.
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th 28 Apr 2022
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fr 3 Dec 2021 | As a kid we went over the handlebars on the cobbles then in Stratford Broadway, other rolling on cards updates includes Hispanic bad taste and both British and US endurance roller skating.
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sa 18 Sep 2021 | 
Perhaps inevitably most comic postcards about rolling involve falling over. |
su 6 Jun 2021 | As a very young teenager we had a week's holiday in Bournemouth. Much of it was spent roller skating on nearby Boscombe Pier. We manned up for a Gentlemen Only session and got pushed so hard from behind we went over the barrier. We visited maybe ten years later and the roller rink was now an amusement arcade but the beautiful wooden floor was still there.
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tu 20 Apr 2021 | Roller derby beer? Hell yes! |
mo 29 Mar 2021 | Nice to see rolling in Clissold Park Stoke Newington, we used to jog there with a three legged dog call Spock ... we could usually keep up with her. |
we 24 Mar 2021 | A handful of vintage pix that could be filed as groups; the Mayor of Loughborough opening the Premier Skating Rink and the latest craze in Dundee is American Roller Skating ... perhaps it's the name of the rink.
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tu 9 Mar 2021 | Interest in a 2012 Alamy pic by us of a roller derby bout highlighting how the sport has since developed. |
tu 12 Jan 2021 | Stand up comedian Lou Sanders being a lot braver than us on eight wheels. |
we 30 Dec 2020 | Best roller skating woman stand up, Suzi Ruffell or Lou Sanders? |
tu 10 Nov 2020 | There's something subversive about fancy dress perhaps because the wearer is not themselves for a bit. It certainly appealed to Edwardian roller skaters. |
th 29 Oct 2020 | Sara Pascoe is definitely a better roller skater (20:39) than Rachel Parris (not difficult) but she doesn't have the relaxed elegance we've often envied in roller derby skaters out of play.
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tu 22 Sep 2020 | It's not just roller derbyists who have attitude. |
mo 14 Sep 2020 | Our calculation may be imaginative but at the beginning of last century a one hour lesson in fancy skating would have been around £36 in today's money ... sounds about right. |
mo 7Sep 2020 | A chum who has been motor homing near Wales pointed us at BBC Wales' three part doc about roller derby league Tiger Bay Brawlers. On tv tomorrow night in Wales only but available everywhere on iPlayer.
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sa 5 Sep 2020 | The day after we'd bought a helmet for roller skating we came off backwards big time banging our head hard. Sixteen year old Sid Hudson skateboarding in Bury St Edmunds wasn't so lucky.
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th 13 Aug 2020 | A tintype was a mid 1800s photo process which makes just one positive and usually mirror image. Popular as it could be processed quickly, a sort of Victorian Polaroid. The subject's participation is needed for the long exposures suiting snapper Jenny Sampson who used the process to make pix of female and non-binary skateboarders in US skateparks.
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