Diamond Jubilee Celebrations
Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th October 2024
The Border Ice Rink opened its doors to ice sports on the 1st October 1964 with a "Curling Bonspiel”, followed by a dinner in Ednam House, then a wekend of skating.
Here we are in 2024, some 60 years later and still going strong. To mark this milestone we organised a Curling Bonspiel, a Jubilee Dinner and a 60s Theme Skating Weekend for you all to enjoy similar to what happened in '64.
For the curlers we hosted a bonspiel for 128 players on Saturday 19th October when the north of our catchment area played the south in their clubs. Invited players from further afield were also involved.
The Diamond Jubilee Dinner with music, toasts and an after dinner speaker took place in the Cross Keys Hotel, Kelso..
Curling Information
We had 32 teams play a short 6 end Bonspiel in their clubs with the clubs from the north playing the clubs from the south of our catchment area. The winning team was the team with the highest shots up, then most ends scored and highst end came into play.
The draw and results are below.
We are very greatfull to Walter Blair of
W J Blair, Jewellers, Kelso
for supplying the curling trophies.
These will be presented at the dinner.
DIAMOND JUBILEE DINNER
A dinner was held in the Cross Keys Hotel, Kelso on Saturday 19th October 2024
Guests were welcomed to the hotel from 6.00pm with live music by the "Cobbles Band" evryone was seated by 7.00pm when the top table were brought into the room to the tune Killiecrankie. MC Peter Bowyer then invited Alistair Lindsay to say ggrace. The hotel served a lovely meal which everyone had pre-ordered.
After the meal the prizes for the curling were presented and the Ice Diamond Award was won by the Management Team and Lucy tile collected this award on behalf of the team. The othere speakers for the night are detaled below.
The meal was supported supported by donations from:
Agriparts Borders Ltd; Al’s Skate Shop; Bairnkine Holiday Cottages;
Border Aggregates; Jim & Liz Cullen; Galedin Vets;
Harrison & Hetherington; D H Design & Print; FBRseed;
Ken Hope Motors; Liz Martin; Murray of Redden; Darren Paxton;
Pitman Computers; Prentice Agriculture; Oliver Stark; Taits, Kelso; James Stewart & Sons; Swans Shoes: Tweed Blinds; R Welsh & Sons.
Please use the links to visit these companies.