It is not often that Londoners are able to enjoy skating in the parks, OuR OWN ConnEsPoNDExT but so crowded were many of the ponds and lakes rear London on Sunday that skating was only made Possible by adapting the one-way traffic system to the situation, Some of the.most thrilling and daring skating tricks were done by people who could not have spent many hours of their lives on real. ice. Where did they learn it? Where did the man in a railway porter's uniform acquire the art of pirouetting on one skate, this. girl of 15 who has hired cheap skates on the bank practise crouching and gliding along on one foot, this middle-aged man who arrived on a rusty bicycle learn how to waltz on skates?
Skating was forbidden on the Serpentine in Hyde Park, but it was allowed on the Round Pond in
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