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"content": "Australia’s First Ice Skating Rink<br /><br /> <br /><br />Henry Newman Reid, the expert refrigeration engineer who was the general manager for Adelaide Ice and Cold Storage Company located in Light Square, saw the opening of his Ice Palais Skating Rink on the evening of Tuesday September 6th, 1904. <br /> <br /> The Adelaide Glaciarium at 91 Hindley Street, Adelaide was not only the first ice skating rink built in Australia but also the first ice rink in the world to have it's cooling plant located off-site, 650 meters west down Hindley Street. This project came to fruition due to a series of conveniences and opportunities presenting at the same time. The costs associated with building a dedicated ice works for the ice rink could be avoided as the ice works Reid managed in Light Square already existed, so the ice production was almost “free”. 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Reid would form an ice layer 2 inches thick and through seeking better conditions would come to use distilled water, to generate the best ice conditions seen around many parts of the world as commented on by overseas visitors. Skaters would skate in a circular fashion around a large 1m square centralized column inside the rink, the column was mirrored and had upholstered seating for tired skaters to seek refuge. \n \n Popular events held at the Adelaide Glaciarium were Fancy Dress Carnivals and exhibitions of sports adapted to the ice, hurdle races, basketball on ice and figure skating exhibitions. The sport of roller polo and pastime of roller skating was extremely popular and a local champion Professor John Caldwell would be an early attraction adapting his skills to ice skates. Within 1 month of opening, Professor Caldwell would captain the first game of roller polo adapted to ice using ice skates instead. This game was often referred to as “Hockey on The Ice” but was not the codified game of ice hockey, rather it was roller polo played on ice. The first game of ice polo was played between a rink team and a Scratch team made up of amateurs as part of a range of sports played and carnival activities. The game began at 9:00pm on October 12th, 1904 and the players were in their fancy dress for the carnival, the score was tied 2-2. \n \n By 1905, a champion skater from Princes Ice Skating Club in London, by the name of Professor James Brewer would become a regular feature at the Adelaide Glaciarium. Professor Brewer could not only do figures and somersaults but was also an accomplished speed skater. Both Professor Brewer and Professor Caldwell became important figures in the early instruction of Australian ice skaters. John Caldwell provided the first ice skating instruction in Australian history. The rink would continue to host games of ice polo during carnivals and they proved to be very popular but the codified sport of ice hockey was never played at this ice rink, that would develop elsewhere. \n \n By 1906 Henry Newman Reid planned to build his 2nd ice skating rink in Melbourne and left Adelaide at the end of April to become general manager of the new Melbourne venue, the syndicate agreed to dissolve their partnership from October that year. Though the Adelaide Glaciarium continued to operate, numbers declined after Reid left and the Glaciarium would finally close in 1907. The floor was paved with an asphalt surface and opened as the Olympia Roller Skating Rink on December 14th, 1907. The building went through many changes but most famously was remodeled as a theater by T.J. West. 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"content": "Interest in building ice skating rinks in Australia can be dated back to the 19th century, where the first plans to build an ice rink in East Melbourne were announced in 1888 by Australia's first ice rink syndicate. <br /><br />In fact, the process of mechanical refrigeration had it's beginnings in Australia with the first mechanical ice making machine beginning operation in 1851 on the banks of the Barwon River at Rocky Point in Geelong, Victoria. It was here in Geelong, Victoria that Scottish-born engineer, James Harrison would realise his invention of the refrigeration process, which would soon spread across the world. By 1856 Harrison would travel back to London to patent his process and his apparatus. By 1859 he founded the Victorian Ice Works on Franklin Street in Melbourne and then Sydney Ice Co. in 1860. Harrison then saw it would be of great benefit to Australia to be able to trade Australian meat products with Europe and began work on creating refrigerated shipping to enable this. In 1873, the first shipment of 20 tons of Australian beef and mutton to London via the ship Norfolk using his refrigeration methods. This revolutionised Australian trade with the rest of the world and impacted the large natural ice industry but his technology led to the invention of the mechanically frozen indoor ice skating rink. <br /><br />Italian-born British veterinarian and inventor, John Gamgee was introduced to and became fascinated by Harrison's process of refrigeration during a trip to the United States of America to look at Texas fever in cattle. Gamgee would go on to discover the process for mechanically frozen ice rinks while attempting to develop a way to freeze meat imported from Australia. 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This rink would remain for ten years, closing in 1889 but these early rinks would lead to the dawn of mechanically frozen ice skating rinks being built around the world previously relying on naturally formed ice. <br /><br />In 1888 a prospectus was announced to build an indoor ice skating rink in East Melbourne, it would be a multi-level building with an ice skating rink and cold stores, on the first floor above would be a roller skating rink. The venue would have frontage on both Gipps Street and Grey Street and both rink sizes would be 18.29m x 82.30m in size. The building would not go ahead and Australia would have to wait a little longer before the first indoor ice skating rink would be built here. <br /><br />Henry Newman Reid's uncle, Robert Reid was an Australian Minister of Defence and Minister of Health in the James Patterson government, he was first elected in 1892. By 1893 the Scottish-born Robert Reid was promoting trade in refrigerated shipping in Britain and in North America. His lectures would see him travel to Vancouver, Canada and to Toronto, Canada. Ice skating rinks would continue to be built in places such as Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Washington, New York in the USA, Ottawa, Canada and two in London, one of which was the famed Prince's Skating Club. <br /><br />English-born Henry Newman Reid was a proficient refrigeration engineer who was living in Melbourne, he was a member of the London Society of Engineers. He was aware of these mechanically refrigerated ice skating rink developments in North America and Europe and made comment about them. At the time Henry Newman Reid was the general manager for Adelaide Ice and Cold Storage Company located in Light Square Adelaide. Reid saw the opportunity to avoid the cost associated with building a new purpose-built facility with cooling plant through making use of the already existing AISCC ice works in Light Square, Adelaide and a nearby existing large building originally built as the Adelaide Cyclorama. The cost of the project could be minimised through connecting the ice works cooling plant to a new network of piping for the proposed ice floor in the Cyclorama building and a budget for redecorating the Cyclorama to re purpose the building for a new ice skating venue. The challenge would be to run the new piping under public roads and lanes as the Cyclorama building at 89 Hindley Street was approximately 700 meters down the road. <br /><br />After meeting obstacles with permits during his initial attempt to do so in 1903, a prospectus for the acquisition for the Cyclorama building at 89 Hindley Street was announced on June 1st, 1904. On the evening of September 6th, 1904 the Adelaide Glaciarium would open and become the first ice rink built in Australia. Not only was the Adelaide Glaciarium the first mechanically frozen ice skating rink to be built in the Southern hemisphere, it was also a feat of engineering as it was the first ice skating rink in the world where the cooling plant was in a different location to the ice skating rink. <br /><br />It was here in the Adelaide Glaciarium, with the modern day address of 91 Hindley Street in Adelaide, that would become the cradle of Australian ice sports; relying on the refrigeration technology that changed the world, appearing for the first time on the banks of the Barwon River at Rocky Point in Geelong, Victoria invented by James Harrison 53 years before. <br /><br /><br />References:<br /><br />1. “The Next Wave” Legends of Australian Ice<br /><a href=\"http://icelegendsaustralia.com/1stIceChampions-builders1.html\" target=\"_blank\">http://icelegendsaustralia.com/1stIceChampions-builders1.html</a><br /><br />2.“James Harrison's biography gazrox.com.<br /><a href=\"http://gazrox.com/index.php?page=james_harrison\" target=\"_blank\">http://gazrox.com/index.php?page=james_harrison</a> <br /><br />3. Pollard, Justin (14 March 2017). \"How John Gamgee's perpetual motion machine fooled a president\". The Institution of Engineering and Technology. <br /><br />4. “Henry Newman Reid” Legends of Australian Ice <br /><a href=\"https://icelegendsaustralia.com/FAI.html\" target=\"_blank\">https://icelegendsaustralia.com/FAI.html</a><br /><br />5. “Napolean's Ghost” Legends of Australian Ice<br /><a href=\"https://icelegendsaustralia.com/legends-2/article_40.html\" target=\"_blank\">https://icelegendsaustralia.com/legends-2/article_40.html</a><br /><br />6. \"Ice Skating A Proposed Glaciarium\". The Register. 3 June 1904.",
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Gamgee would return to London to patent these methods in 1870 and would be the developer for the worlds first mechanically refrigerated indoor ice rink, which opened under a tent in Chelsea, London on January 7th, 1876. Three more rinks would be opened but would close by 1878. Between this time, five McGill University students in Montreal, Canada would codify 7 rules for the game of ice hockey.\nThe year of 1879 would see the first successful refrigerated meat shipment leave Melbourne and Sydney on the ship Strathleven, an Australian historic breakthrough in commercial refrigeration, where the meat was sold in London. In the same year an ice skating rink in Southport, the Southport Glaciarium, would be built nearby Liverpool where Lord Stanley was a member of parliament. This rink would remain for ten years, closing in 1889 but these early rinks would lead to the dawn of mechanically frozen ice skating rinks being built around the world previously relying on naturally formed ice. \n\nIn 1888 a prospectus was announced to build an indoor ice skating rink in East Melbourne, it would be a multi-level building with an ice skating rink and cold stores, on the first floor above would be a roller skating rink. The venue would have frontage on both Gipps Street and Grey Street and both rink sizes would be 18.29m x 82.30m in size. The building would not go ahead and Australia would have to wait a little longer before the first indoor ice skating rink would be built here. \n\nHenry Newman Reid's uncle, Robert Reid was an Australian Minister of Defence and Minister of Health in the James Patterson government, he was first elected in 1892. By 1893 the Scottish-born Robert Reid was promoting trade in refrigerated shipping in Britain and in North America. His lectures would see him travel to Vancouver, Canada and to Toronto, Canada. Ice skating rinks would continue to be built in places such as Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Washington, New York in the USA, Ottawa, Canada and two in London, one of which was the famed Prince's Skating Club. \n\nEnglish-born Henry Newman Reid was a proficient refrigeration engineer who was living in Melbourne, he was a member of the London Society of Engineers. He was aware of these mechanically refrigerated ice skating rink developments in North America and Europe and made comment about them. At the time Henry Newman Reid was the general manager for Adelaide Ice and Cold Storage Company located in Light Square Adelaide. Reid saw the opportunity to avoid the cost associated with building a new purpose-built facility with cooling plant through making use of the already existing AISCC ice works in Light Square, Adelaide and a nearby existing large building originally built as the Adelaide Cyclorama. The cost of the project could be minimised through connecting the ice works cooling plant to a new network of piping for the proposed ice floor in the Cyclorama building and a budget for redecorating the Cyclorama to re purpose the building for a new ice skating venue. The challenge would be to run the new piping under public roads and lanes as the Cyclorama building at 89 Hindley Street was approximately 700 meters down the road. \n\nAfter meeting obstacles with permits during his initial attempt to do so in 1903, a prospectus for the acquisition for the Cyclorama building at 89 Hindley Street was announced on June 1st, 1904. On the evening of September 6th, 1904 the Adelaide Glaciarium would open and become the first ice rink built in Australia. Not only was the Adelaide Glaciarium the first mechanically frozen ice skating rink to be built in the Southern hemisphere, it was also a feat of engineering as it was the first ice skating rink in the world where the cooling plant was in a different location to the ice skating rink. \n\nIt was here in the Adelaide Glaciarium, with the modern day address of 91 Hindley Street in Adelaide, that would become the cradle of Australian ice sports; relying on the refrigeration technology that changed the world, appearing for the first time on the banks of the Barwon River at Rocky Point in Geelong, Victoria invented by James Harrison 53 years before. \n\n\nReferences:\n\n1. “The Next Wave” Legends of Australian Ice\nhttp://icelegendsaustralia.com/1stIceChampions-builders1.html\n\n2.“James Harrison's biography gazrox.com.\nhttp://gazrox.com/index.php?page=james_harrison \n\n3. Pollard, Justin (14 March 2017). \"How John Gamgee's perpetual motion machine fooled a president\". 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