Fen Skating by Enid Porter

Fen Skating article by Enid Porter

A printed historical document with black text on a white page, describing the history and use of ancient bone ice skates.

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A printed document page detailing the history of Fenland skating, featuring historical accounts and scholarly footnotes.

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A page of printed text discussing the history of fen skating, including footnotes and references to historical accounts.

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A scanned page of printed text describing the construction of fen skates, with numbered footnotes at the bottom.

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A page of printed text describing the history and technical specifications of fen skates, with numbered footnotes at the base.

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Black and white line-drawn map titled The Main Drains of the Southern Fens, showing rivers and waterways around Cambridge.

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A page of printed text describing historical techniques for fastening skate straps and accounts of long-distance fen skating.

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A page of black printed text on a white background discussing the history and rules of competitive fen skating races.

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Printed document detailing historical fen skating, including transcripts of race reports and an inscription on a silver prize cup.

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A printed page from Folk Life 7, featuring a historical text about Fen skaters with numbered footnotes at the bottom.

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A printed document page detailing the history of fen skating, including references to Lingay Fen and various competitions.

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A page of text from a book describing historical fen skating records, races, and the speeds of nineteenth-century skaters.

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A page of printed text titled Fen Skating by Enid Porter, detailing the history and terminology of skating in the fens.

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A printed page of text describing fen skating matches, including historical references to a race on the Forty Foot River.

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A printed page of text discussing the history of fen skating, bandy, and shinty, with numbered footnotes at the bottom.

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A page of printed text from a book describing the history and rules of the game of Bandy, including numbered footnotes.

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A document page printed with several paragraphs of historical text describing the rules and history of Fen bandy skating.

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Fenland Skating Memories
Letter to Lorna Delanoy dated 29 May 1996

“Those distant days of recalled winter weather, and those frosty days, times of skating on the fenland washes, at Earith with the Bluntisham Church in the background…”

Commentary
A vivid first-hand recollection of the famous Fen skating culture that once drew competitors and spectators from across the region.

The Fen Runner Skates
Letter to Lorna Delanoy dated 29 May 1996

“The skates used on the frozen washes of those days were known as ‘Fen Runners’.”

Commentary
An important piece of local terminology. Such references help document the specialised culture of Fen skating.

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Sources

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