New website launched

The news just keeps on coming. Warburg Property Development have just announced the launch of a new website http://www.southamptonice.co.uk/  and compliments the downloadable available form below

The site will give details of their scheme to bring an ice rink back to Southampton and from the homepage you can vote for or against the proposals. Southampton Vikings voted YES!

Southampton Vikings

Now on Facebook too!!

This is the home page of one of the oldest Ice Hockey Clubs in the UK. Although there is no home ice at the moment doesn't mean that the spirit isn't willing, it is alive and raring to go once a new ice rink is ready. 

Southampton City Council are working to bring ice skating back to its citizens after the old Banister rink closed its doors to the paying public in controversial circumstances in 1988.  For over fifty years up to 1988 with only a break because of war damage, we enjoyed the facility. It was only the greed of a corporate bully who's only intention of buying into the ice rink site in 1963 was to sell it off for luxury housing which took them 25 years to achieve and ended in the closure of the rink.

Over the past 10 years, this site and other organisations like The Southampton Ice Dance and Figure skating Club have helped to convince the local council that an ice rink in Southampton is viable and will be well patronised. It has been a long arduous battle with disappointments and some successes, but it would appear that the effort has been worth it and we intend to continue until we skate out onto the brand new ice surface built on land in Southampton. It will happen, of that we are all sure.

Emails to the city council will be appreciated and handed on to Councillor Hannides is Cabinet member for Leisure. We have to show that there is a need for an ice rink and although the evidence is there already, the council have to be convinced it is not going to cost the earth and end up in closure after only a short time. Ice rinks as we know cost buckets of cash to build and run and no one expects any council to spend tax payers money on something that is going to end up a total waste of time effort and....... money.

So, if you are reading this and you are from Southampton or any part of the region, email your councillor and tell them what you think. They must listen to what you have to say, you effort could make all the difference to our city boasting a state of the art ice rink or yet another office block, hotel or even more shopping facilities.

The BRICK is depending on you!!

I hope you enjoy this site, if you remember the ice rink, then it will take you back to the days when skating was a way of life for many in Southampton. People say that they used to spend their lives at the rink, like me, it was my second home for a long time. Of course, it is not just about the great sport of hockey, it is also about ice skating, ice dancing, ice shows, ice cream, well, a little bit of poetic justice, please!

A new ice rink would be,,,,,,,,.............the icing on the cake.

Petition to the council

The Southampton Vikings and the Southampton Ice Dance and Figure Skating Club have formed an alliance. The grouping is called the United Southampton Skaters. The campaign culminated in a march to commemorate the closing of our ice rink on August the 22nd 1998. The march began exactly 20 years to the day on 22nd of August 2008 at 11.30am in the Banister Park Estate and followed the route of Carlton Road, Bedford Place, Watts Park, West Marlands, Above Bar, The Precinct, Bargate Street, Portland Terrace ending at the Civic Centre where we handed over the petition to the Chief Executive of the city council at approximately 1pm.

If you haven't added your name to the petition, please help us by clicking the link below

PETITION

As from the 8th of August, the Daily Echo also joined the USS in the campaign to re-establish an ice rink. You can read some of the articles that are appearing in the newspaper by clicking this link  Daily Echo

The campaign poster can be downloaded here if you would like to help distribute it. It is formatted in A2 size but can be printed in smaller sizes too

GIVE US WHAT WE WANT AND THEN WE'LL GO AWAY

23rd of August 2008 reunion match report

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