The Edinburgh Skating Club

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With the help of her historian friend Professor Jennifer Brodie, Claire comes to the conclusion that the subject of the painting may not have been Robert Walker but someone else. John Dennis Cronshey achieved Britain's best ever result in the World Speed Championship ( Long Track, there was no short track at that time).

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British Ice Skating transfers its operational base to the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield, putting it in amongst other sporting National Governing Bodies with access to modern, state-of-the-art facilities. Set during the infamous North Berwick Witch Trials, that saw many persecuted, tortured and killed, Besse uncovers long-held secrets as she fights for justice and truth in a world of suspicion and lies. The claim to the 1642 founding date appears to derive from a small book published by the club council in 1865, The Edinburgh Skating-Club with Diagrams of Figures and a List of the Members. John Curry, an artistic genius on ice, had been gradually working his way up in Championship results.Back in the 21st century, meanwhile, Claire and her friend Jen are investigating the controversy surrounding Raeburn’s painting of the elegant figure gliding across Duddingston Loch. In twenty-first-century Edinburgh, art historian Claire Sharp receives a mysterious request: to settle once and for all the true provenance of the iconic painting The Skating Minister.

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Having organised a competition for male instructors in 1931, the NSA now set up an Open Professional Championship for Men, Women and Pairs (and from 1939 in Ice Dancing). Skaters went to War and some lost their lives amongst them, Walter Gregory, Freddie Tomlins and Tony Austin.Like Prince's SC earlier in the century ,it became the favourite rink of London's high society until it closed in 1939 at the outbreak of War. The children’s affection for each other is shown in their body language, as is their youthful vulnerability.