The National Ice Centre is located in Nottingham, in the middle of England. Just east of the city centre, it's close to the historic Lace Market area. As well as ice skating (as you'd expect), it also doubles as the Nottingham Arena, where many popular bands play. Nottingham is a city located in Nottinghamshire, in the East Midlands of England. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Ethnicity... Broadway in the Lace Market, being renovated in July 2001 The Lace Market is an historic quarter-mile square area of Nottingham, UK. Once the heart of the world lace industry, with many impressive examples of 18th Century industrial architecture, it is a protected heritage area. ... Outdoor ice skating in Austria Ice skating is travelling on ice with skates, narrow (and sometimes parabolic) blade-like devices moulded into special boots (or, more primitively, without boots, tied to regular footwear). ...

The site has had an ice stadium on it since 1939, but the old building was showing its age: hence it's nickname, "The Barn". To make way for the new stadium it was demolished in July 1997 along with several other buildings, including an Art Deco warehouse on the opposite side of Barker Gate, and bodies had to be exhumed from a 19th Century graveyard found under the car park. This obviously lead to some controversy at the time; but The Old Cricket Players pub was intially spared. It was eventually pulled down, it remains to be seen whether or not an establishment will be built in it's place. Asheville City Hall. ...

The current building was first announced in September 1995 at an estimated cost of £13 million - part of which was to come from National Lottery funds. The plans were unveiled in October 1996, by which time the British Olympic Association had got behind the proposal. The first public skating session took place in April 2000. The final cost of the project was around £40m, 10% of which came from the lottery - one of the highest grants awarded. A play here! sign outside a newsagent, incorporating the National Lotterys logo of a stylised hand with crossed fingers. ... The British Olympic Association (BOA) is responsible for the United Kingdoms participation in the Olympic Games. ...

The stadium is home to the Nottingham Panthers ice hockey team, founded in 1946 (although disbanded in 1960 and reformed 20 years later). The earlier building was the training ground for Olympic ice dancing champions Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, who lead the first public skating sesion of the new building. Nottingham Panthers are a British ice hockey team who play in the city of Nottingham, England. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... Olympic can refer to: The Olympic Games, an international Multi-sport event Various stadiums in the world are known as Olympic Stadium Olympic Airlines, state run airline for Greece and successor to Olympic Airways The Olympic Peninsula, located in the U.S. state of Washington RMS Olympic, sister ship of... Ice dancing is a form of pairs figure skating which draws from the world of ballroom dancing. ... Jayne Torvill (born 7 October 1957) was a British figure skater who won a gold medal in ice dancing at the 1984 Winter Olympics with her skating partner Christopher Dean. ... Christopher Dean was a British figure skater who won a gold medal in ice dancing at the 1984 Winter Olympics with his skating partner Jayne Torvill. ...

A rare 1,100 year old Saxon jug was turned up during excavations in July 1998. It was put on display at the Nottingham Castle Museum. The Saxons were a large and powerful Germanic people located in what is now northwestern Germany and a small section of the eastern Netherlands. ... Nottingham Castle, rising above the towers of Nottinghams Inland Revenue offices Nottingham Castle in Nottingham, England, is located in a commanding position, with 130 foot cliffs to the south and west. ...

External links

• Nottingham Arena
  
• A virtual tour of the ice rink, courtesy of the BBC's Nottingham Panthers page

References

• "asaad.com Overview". An overview of the project by the architects. URL accessed on March 9, 2005.