Tournament Hall Roller Rink Edge Lane, Liverpool, UK. Source: Billboard - 03 November 1907, page 13.
Tournament Hall Roller Rink Edge Lane, Liverpool, UK
Tournament Hall Roller Rink Edge Lane, Liverpool, United Kingdom was one of the early rinks and was one of the 500 roller rinks at the same time for this kingdom alone! That was massive amount of rinks for this size country. Not counting Isle of Man.
I seem cannot find much information but provides some. But a couple of information can be put on here. It seems to be opened in 1907 but the closure is unknown. As they say for any businesses, they usually do not survive well under the first 2 or 3 years. That is common with restaurants but any businesses back the day normally would do that.
As I understood from commercial archeology and history, the bell curve from first invention or first of a kind of invention or whatsoever, the curve showed many business enterpreurers would establish a business or make copy cats and captialize the market control and this explosions cause the demise of many businesses. And a few would remain today. If you noticed with automobiles, they had like over 200 manufacturers of automobiles at least 1890s to 1920s. Many folded and a few survived beyond 1920s and a very few start ups after that like Chrysler in 1924, Tucker in 1939. AMC in 1969 as result of a merger, things like that. But mainly about 10 manufacturers today with at least 40 brands after bought outs. Like with Fiat owns Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Ferrari, etc. General Motors with Chevrolet, Buick, Cadillac, GMC, with a few defunct names. You get the idea.
Snowmobiles faced the exact same bell curve in 1960s and 1970s and exact same set up and closures for good the exact same history aspect. Today with only Big 4 or you can say 5 manufacturers with 6 brands on the market.
So where boat manufacturers and motorcycles as well as Recreational Vehicles.
Now with roller skating rinks, in 1890s to 1910s, roller rinks opening were in same bell curve.. as automobiles and snowmobiles did. Seemly it peaked in 1900s. It did die down as the trend changed from marketing for elites only into all-ages skating which was the Golden Era from 1930s to 1959. That was another bell curve which was bit unusual.
The 1970s and early 1980s was because of disco. Yes, another skyrocketing of opening so many rinks. But died down because of death of Disco popularity, insurance killer of 1980s, and home video games. The 2020s is not the same. Very cautious in this decade because of cost, expensures, and operators researched to find out about 7 years curve of popularity of skating. High risks and insurance as well are putting off opening so many rinks.
Ok, now back to this rink, this is one of many opened up to compete to mainstay. I do not think they made it that successful. One of very brief. Yes, even snowmobile manufacturing companies in early 1970s lasted only a week! I read about it through Snow Goer and other snowmobile related publications.
This rink was during the Edwardian Era when it was His Majesty was crowned at the time.
The boom the Leeds Mercury explained that roller skating started in Liverpool in 1907. An American rink manager called Chester Park Crawford and Frederic Wilkins, opened a rink at Liverpool’s Tournament Hall. They started the rink. There were numerous of other rinks they operated as well. By 1909, there were five hundred roller skating rinks open across the UK. Five of these were in Leeds, in Oakwood, Kirkstall, Hunslet and Chapeltown. Headingley Roller Rink was another rink they operated in Headingley. It was also known as American Roller Rink.
I believe the Tournament Hall was the first of the chain of rinks the American Roller Rink Company under Chester Park Crawford and Frederic Wilkins operated. This is the earliest and likely the first actual chain of rinks. Inventor James Plimpton operated two rinks but we at Rink History prefer to see at least three rinks or more to classified as a chain. Likely this was the first roller rink chain company.
The Interior.
Unknown but likely Maple floor. Usually 100 percent of rinks at the time period are wood floors.
The Exterior.
N/A.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A. Floor: Wood.. Floor Layout: N/A.
Building Size: N/A. Built: N/A. Renovations: N/A. Demolished: N/A.
Type of Building: N/A.
Roof: Gabled.
Acres: N/A.
Architect: N/A.
Contractor: N/A.
Interior Designer: N/A.
Organ: N/A.
10 Pins Bowling Lanes: None.
Duck Pins Bowling Lanes: None.
Candlestick Bowling Lanes: None.
Pocket Billiard Tables: N/A.
Amusement Rides: None.
Driving Range Slots: None.
Miniature Golf Course: None.
Arcade: (Number unknown)
Skee-Ball: N/A.
Fascination: None.
Restaurant: None.
Cocktail lounge: None.
Laser Tag: None.
Bounce Houses: None.
Bumper Cars: None.
Go-Kart: None.
Motel: None.
Swimming Pool: None.
Jungle Gym Playground: None.
Skate Park: None.
Operated: (Overall)-- 1907 to N/A..
Reason for Closure: N/A.
Wanted: Information regarding exact dates of open/closed, why closed, size of rink, rink materials. Also, photos/articles. Also send me any updates such as reopening, sold, name changes, or whatsoever occurred with this rink or any rinks. Anyone knows or have photos, please let me know by emailing at International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation©. Before you email, please state this rink name AND THE CITY AND STATE (or COUNTRY) so I can know where or what rink you are talking about. Thank you. We welcome both active and defunct rinks.
Sources:
Twitter - Liverpool History.
Billboard - 03 November 1907, page 13. (Note, Google got its own page number wrong stating it is page 11 but the magazine proved the real page number. It is in the photograph shown above that it was edited to fit in the photograph.)
Leeds - History of local rinks in Leeds, UK.
Date of issue: 03 October 2022.
For office use only: 2.
Worth to visit:
None. This was from 1907, nothing to see. It is gone.
DISCLAIMER:
International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© (formerly known as Dead-Rinks) and Mark Falso are not responsible for your physical and legal injuries you may have caused. We do not endorse such illegal activities including breaking and entry of former rinks, malls, abandoned buildings, etc. Please always obey laws and regulations and property owner's signs. Some states allow purple paint on fence which means they even have guns on their property and have rights to shoot you. Please DO NOT attempt to enter property without permission!
For abandoned rinks, after you receive permission, do WEAR safety OSHA equipment including a safety glasses, pair of safety gloves, an orange vest or a jacket, and a construction helmet.
Thank you for understanding.
Dead Rinks is now International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© because many former names have become new names at the same rinks that are still active and due to much confusion, We have decided that International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© fits better for all rinks including defunct, closed, inactive, rebooted, and rinks that are still active today. For short on this site, it is International Roller Skating Rinks History© Bear with us as we change the entire site page by page each day. Thank you for understanding.
Second of all: The contents including words and photos above on this page and/or on any pages are purely educational entertainment purposes only. I provide what information from other websites, skaters, and operators and it may end up with different results between two (or more) sources. It is not our responsible for errors we caused. All sources are shown on each page. All opinions and statements of mine are also stated and are for purely educational entertainment only.
Rinks that are closed are considered dead. Rinks that are/were sold and with new management names new name(s), the former are considered dead. Previous operating rink that closed but came back years later, are considered dead because the reopening is considered rebooted, nothing to do with the former. Since we are rebooted to allow alive rinks, active rinks, we welcome those active rinks as well. It will be described.
As for “For Office Only” is for my reasoning and private legal reason for that.
Any music associated with any YouTube or any other videos provided on International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© are not the property of International Commercial Archeology Preservation© Group and/or International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© therefore we do not own the rights to the music.
All photos you submitted or we retrieved become property of International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© and are watermarked but they are credited to you (or where the source is from). Thank you for understanding. To understand more about this, please go to this page: Disclaimer.
© Copyrighted by International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation©, an International Commercial Archeology Preservation© Group. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:3 to 16. Deut. 32:7.
I seem cannot find much information but provides some. But a couple of information can be put on here. It seems to be opened in 1907 but the closure is unknown. As they say for any businesses, they usually do not survive well under the first 2 or 3 years. That is common with restaurants but any businesses back the day normally would do that.
As I understood from commercial archeology and history, the bell curve from first invention or first of a kind of invention or whatsoever, the curve showed many business enterpreurers would establish a business or make copy cats and captialize the market control and this explosions cause the demise of many businesses. And a few would remain today. If you noticed with automobiles, they had like over 200 manufacturers of automobiles at least 1890s to 1920s. Many folded and a few survived beyond 1920s and a very few start ups after that like Chrysler in 1924, Tucker in 1939. AMC in 1969 as result of a merger, things like that. But mainly about 10 manufacturers today with at least 40 brands after bought outs. Like with Fiat owns Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Ferrari, etc. General Motors with Chevrolet, Buick, Cadillac, GMC, with a few defunct names. You get the idea.
Snowmobiles faced the exact same bell curve in 1960s and 1970s and exact same set up and closures for good the exact same history aspect. Today with only Big 4 or you can say 5 manufacturers with 6 brands on the market.
So where boat manufacturers and motorcycles as well as Recreational Vehicles.
Now with roller skating rinks, in 1890s to 1910s, roller rinks opening were in same bell curve.. as automobiles and snowmobiles did. Seemly it peaked in 1900s. It did die down as the trend changed from marketing for elites only into all-ages skating which was the Golden Era from 1930s to 1959. That was another bell curve which was bit unusual.
The 1970s and early 1980s was because of disco. Yes, another skyrocketing of opening so many rinks. But died down because of death of Disco popularity, insurance killer of 1980s, and home video games. The 2020s is not the same. Very cautious in this decade because of cost, expensures, and operators researched to find out about 7 years curve of popularity of skating. High risks and insurance as well are putting off opening so many rinks.
Ok, now back to this rink, this is one of many opened up to compete to mainstay. I do not think they made it that successful. One of very brief. Yes, even snowmobile manufacturing companies in early 1970s lasted only a week! I read about it through Snow Goer and other snowmobile related publications.
This rink was during the Edwardian Era when it was His Majesty was crowned at the time.
The boom the Leeds Mercury explained that roller skating started in Liverpool in 1907. An American rink manager called Chester Park Crawford and Frederic Wilkins, opened a rink at Liverpool’s Tournament Hall. They started the rink. There were numerous of other rinks they operated as well. By 1909, there were five hundred roller skating rinks open across the UK. Five of these were in Leeds, in Oakwood, Kirkstall, Hunslet and Chapeltown. Headingley Roller Rink was another rink they operated in Headingley. It was also known as American Roller Rink.
I believe the Tournament Hall was the first of the chain of rinks the American Roller Rink Company under Chester Park Crawford and Frederic Wilkins operated. This is the earliest and likely the first actual chain of rinks. Inventor James Plimpton operated two rinks but we at Rink History prefer to see at least three rinks or more to classified as a chain. Likely this was the first roller rink chain company.
The Interior.
Unknown but likely Maple floor. Usually 100 percent of rinks at the time period are wood floors.
The Exterior.
N/A.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A. Floor: Wood.. Floor Layout: N/A.
Building Size: N/A. Built: N/A. Renovations: N/A. Demolished: N/A.
Type of Building: N/A.
Roof: Gabled.
Acres: N/A.
Architect: N/A.
Contractor: N/A.
Interior Designer: N/A.
Organ: N/A.
10 Pins Bowling Lanes: None.
Duck Pins Bowling Lanes: None.
Candlestick Bowling Lanes: None.
Pocket Billiard Tables: N/A.
Amusement Rides: None.
Driving Range Slots: None.
Miniature Golf Course: None.
Arcade: (Number unknown)
Skee-Ball: N/A.
Fascination: None.
Restaurant: None.
Cocktail lounge: None.
Laser Tag: None.
Bounce Houses: None.
Bumper Cars: None.
Go-Kart: None.
Motel: None.
Swimming Pool: None.
Jungle Gym Playground: None.
Skate Park: None.
Operated: (Overall)-- 1907 to N/A..
Reason for Closure: N/A.
Wanted: Information regarding exact dates of open/closed, why closed, size of rink, rink materials. Also, photos/articles. Also send me any updates such as reopening, sold, name changes, or whatsoever occurred with this rink or any rinks. Anyone knows or have photos, please let me know by emailing at International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation©. Before you email, please state this rink name AND THE CITY AND STATE (or COUNTRY) so I can know where or what rink you are talking about. Thank you. We welcome both active and defunct rinks.
Sources:
Twitter - Liverpool History.
Billboard - 03 November 1907, page 13. (Note, Google got its own page number wrong stating it is page 11 but the magazine proved the real page number. It is in the photograph shown above that it was edited to fit in the photograph.)
Leeds - History of local rinks in Leeds, UK.
Date of issue: 03 October 2022.
For office use only: 2.
Worth to visit:
None. This was from 1907, nothing to see. It is gone.
DISCLAIMER:
International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© (formerly known as Dead-Rinks) and Mark Falso are not responsible for your physical and legal injuries you may have caused. We do not endorse such illegal activities including breaking and entry of former rinks, malls, abandoned buildings, etc. Please always obey laws and regulations and property owner's signs. Some states allow purple paint on fence which means they even have guns on their property and have rights to shoot you. Please DO NOT attempt to enter property without permission!
For abandoned rinks, after you receive permission, do WEAR safety OSHA equipment including a safety glasses, pair of safety gloves, an orange vest or a jacket, and a construction helmet.
Thank you for understanding.
Dead Rinks is now International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© because many former names have become new names at the same rinks that are still active and due to much confusion, We have decided that International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© fits better for all rinks including defunct, closed, inactive, rebooted, and rinks that are still active today. For short on this site, it is International Roller Skating Rinks History© Bear with us as we change the entire site page by page each day. Thank you for understanding.
Second of all: The contents including words and photos above on this page and/or on any pages are purely educational entertainment purposes only. I provide what information from other websites, skaters, and operators and it may end up with different results between two (or more) sources. It is not our responsible for errors we caused. All sources are shown on each page. All opinions and statements of mine are also stated and are for purely educational entertainment only.
Rinks that are closed are considered dead. Rinks that are/were sold and with new management names new name(s), the former are considered dead. Previous operating rink that closed but came back years later, are considered dead because the reopening is considered rebooted, nothing to do with the former. Since we are rebooted to allow alive rinks, active rinks, we welcome those active rinks as well. It will be described.
As for “For Office Only” is for my reasoning and private legal reason for that.
Any music associated with any YouTube or any other videos provided on International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© are not the property of International Commercial Archeology Preservation© Group and/or International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© therefore we do not own the rights to the music.
All photos you submitted or we retrieved become property of International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© and are watermarked but they are credited to you (or where the source is from). Thank you for understanding. To understand more about this, please go to this page: Disclaimer.
© Copyrighted by International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation©, an International Commercial Archeology Preservation© Group. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:3 to 16. Deut. 32:7.