 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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They don't make them like that anymore, and thank goodness.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I remember it as a kid driving past but my Mum and Dad just said it had been closed. If only - I coulda been a contender 
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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I think it all went downhill very quickly. 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Easy access to the motorway.
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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Class.
Was like the Merthyr slope.
Built entirely in the wrong place. Steep as all hell
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Ah, SkiMat, what a dry, abrasive and noisy surface to ski on!
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| LOTA wrote: |
Ah, SkiMat, what a dry, abrasive and noisy surface to ski on!
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and a bug to clip together, take apart. Catterick Indoor Ski Centre used Ski Mat before changing to Curver, a similar but far superior injection moulded plastic. We used to use a light engine oil as a lubricant.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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I seem to remember both the builder (?) Leatherbarrow and the council architect were jailed sometime later for corruption ?
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| skitech wrote: |
| LOTA wrote: |
Ah, SkiMat, what a dry, abrasive and noisy surface to ski on!
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and a bug to clip together, take apart. Catterick Indoor Ski Centre used Ski Mat before changing to Curver, a similar but far superior injection moulded plastic. We used to use a light engine oil as a lubricant. |
Worked weekends/holidays at Gloucester; one of my tasks was to carry a barrel of light oil up the poma and refill a number of rollers on the track and at the top of the slope which helped lubricate the skis. Messy work.
Helped weed the slope one summer, unclipping and reclipping the SkiMat sections was, as you say, a real bug*** of a task!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Skitow, mentioned this to my golfing mates whilst playing on Saturday, non of them skiiers and they allremembered this slope. The builder charged the council for the slope whilst still using demolition rubbish he would otherwise have paid to get rid of. He then got the council to pay to topsuface it. And of course he built it the wrong way round. Perfect. For our younger members, this type of thing was helpful to Alan Bleasdale when writing 'boys from the blackstuff'. Prison sentences were indeed involved. 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Skitow, mentioned this to my golfing mates whilst playing on Saturday, non of them skiiers and they all remembered this slope. The builder charged the council for the slope whilst still using demolition rubbish he would otherwise have paid to get rid of. He then got the council to pay to topsurface it. And of course he built it the wrong way round. Perfect. For our older members, this type of thing was helpful to Alan Bleasdale when writing 'boys from the blackstuff'. Prison sentences were indeed involved.
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Skitow, mentioned this to my golfing mates whilst playing on Saturday, non of them skiiers and they all remembered this slope. The builder charged the council for the slope whilst still using demolition rubbish he would otherwise have paid to get rid of. He then got the council to pay to topsurface it. And of course he built it the wrong way round. Perfect. For our older members, this type of thing was helpful to Alan Bleasdale when writing 'boys from the blackstuff'. Prison sentences were indeed involved.
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You know it makes sense.
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Skitow, mentioned this to my golfing mates whilst playing on Saturday, non of them skiiers and they all remembered this slope. The builder charged the council for the slope whilst still using demolition rubbish he would otherwise have paid to get rid of. He then got the council to pay to topsurface it. And of course he built it the wrong way round. Perfect. For our older members, this type of thing was helpful to Alan Bleasdale when writing 'boys from the blackstuff'. Prison sentences were indeed involved.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Skitow, mentioned this to my golfing mates whilst playing on Saturday, non of them skiiers and they all remembered this slope. The builder charged the council for the slope whilst still using demolition rubbish he would otherwise have paid to get rid of. He then got the council to pay to topsurface it. And of course he built it the wrong way round. Perfect. For our older members, this type of thing was helpful to Alan Bleasdale when writing 'boys from the blackstuff'. Prison sentences were indeed involved.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Echo not my doing. Techies required 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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A tale of council cock-up from start to finish: Ski slope or any other project involving other people's money and 'your mates'.
Love the history lesson on prices 1973, just 45 years ago, - "shock horror: prices rose from 90k to £140k" .
These days we'd only be mildly outraged if a scheme went from £90 to £140 million...
(To be fair I exaggerate a little: our local paper is challenging car park plans in our borough that have risen from £8m to £33m. Incompetence and lack of due process continues to this day).
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FAQ
had worked either for or with the local council while all this was going on. Of course, as usual, everybody knew what was going on before it all blew up.....