sa 25 Nov
2023 | rolling 2018-2013 -> rolling 2019-2013  |
fr 10 Nov
2023 |  We've been trying to manage our continually sprawling Facebook albums resulting in a growing London Roller Girls album of roller derby in the days of two whistle starts.
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th 9 Nov
2023
| ♫ According to the BBC that there Ed Sheraton likes The Darkness, we also like their Lowestoft goodness plus for a bit they sponsored the Norfolk Brawds' knickers. |
we 30 Aug
2023 | As far as we're concerned comedienne Lou Sanders had already proved her rolling credentials but now she's taken it a BIG step forward. |
tu 15 Aug
2023 | .jpg "The Maida Vale Roller Skating Palace") The BBC have sold the Maida Vale Studios in that there London for probably around £10 million. It was built in 1909 as the Maida Vale Roller Skating Palace. We've worked there a number of times and noticed some of the floors were impressively smooth.
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mo 27 Feb
2023 | A belated RIP for the Kansas City Bomber (doubled by Judy Arnold) who died the Wednesday before last. |
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. |
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
| Hogg Hill principal Alex Ireton is now a world record holder ... mind you he might have been one before. |
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. |
