Posted by Owen Roberts on November 10, 2013 at 18:23:19 user OwenRoberts.
In Reply to: Re: NLCS was: Lakeland Cam posted by Alan Hakim on November 10, 2013 at 09:29:58:
I too had always assumed that Professor Callum was at UCL as this coincided with the time when UCL included archaeology in its courses.
However I do have difficulty with the WH phrase that the D’s has been practising “on the indoor skating rink close by the University buildings at home”.
In the early 1930’s the principal London rinks were at Golders Green, Hammersmith, Streatham, Bayswater (Queens), Richmond and the Ice Club in Grosvenor Road. It is possible that this listing (taken from the 1932 Ward Lock Red guide) is incomplete. But none of the venues is really close to UCL.
Ice rinks come and go, it may be the AR was thinking of a rink in an earlier age when he was resident in London and there could have been a rink in Bloomsbury. I have contacted the UCLU Ice Club to see if they can help.