London’s outdoor ice skating rinks for winter 2023-2024

Winter is coming, and so are the pop-up ice rinks that populate the city each winter offering people opportunities to repeatedly fall over and go home with sore bums and dented pride.

London’s ice skating rinks for winter 2022/23

Winter is coming, and so are the pop-up ice rinks that populate the city each winter offering people opportunities to repeatedly fall over.

London’s ice skating rinks for Winter 2021/22

Winter is coming, and so are the pop-up ice rinks that populate the city each winter. After an obvious break last year, many are back once more for people to repeatedly fall over on.

Ice Skating in London this winter

The weather's turning wintery and thoughts turn to mulled wine and ice skating, so here's a round-up of the pop-up ice rinks that I am aware of in London this winter.

A history of London’s early artificial ice-rinks

As a city famous for its frozen river it's probably not a surprise that mankind has been skating on ice since time immemorial, but it wasn't until the Victorian era that the first artificial ice-rink was invented.

Unfurling ice-rinks onto the River Thames

An architectural practice has shown off a concept for an unfolding ice rink which can be installed in places along the river and unfurl like a flower when the weather is right to form a natural ice rink.