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2020 – Social enterprise merges with Rossendale Leisure Trust.2018-9 – A new ski hire building is constructed along with toilets, changing rooms and a new café with rooftop terrace with views over the slopes and down the Valley.

2016 – Improver and Beginners’ slope built – funding by Sport England Lottery Funding.

2011 – Slope closes in March and Ski Rossendale Social Enterprise wins tender to take over facility, which reopens at the end of summer.

1987 – London-based company try to take over site offering £1.1million investment but wanting 125-year lease, offer withdrawn as council only offering 25-year lease.

1986 – Mystery buyer offers council £1.2million for slope, is rejected.

1985 – Grant of £200k secured from EEC.

1980 – Ellis Brigham Shop completed and opened.

1979 – Additional £50k funding in the site and extra £80k in a new tow in October.

1969 – North West Sports Council recognise the potential of Ski Rossendale being of ‘major regional importance’.

Please share your recollections of learning to ski by emailing years of history by date Eddie ‘the Eagle’ Edwards has visited twice – the first time to jump over cars – and world downhill skiing champ Franz Klammer also visited. In November 1973, then Prime Minister Edward Heath visited the slope. The site was officially opened in Septemsaw the official opening by Sir Jack Longland, vice-chairman of the North West Sports Council and conqueror of Everest, and three members of the British Olympic Ladies’ Ski Team. There are just 100 tickets available costing £10 and the event starts at 7.30pm. The evening ‘after-party’ will be at the rooftop café and on the beginner’s slope with entertainment from duo The Difference. The Ski Rossendale Yeti mascot will be appearing, there will be children’s rides, guest stars, local craft stalls and Ninja café will be open. Stalls will be set up on the car park, Rossendale Drum Majorettes and Lighthouse Tai Chi will be holding displays, a DJ will play music and artistes Resist the New and Jim Rhodes will play live. On June 10, taster sessions in skiing, snowboarding and tubing will be on offer at £10 for 45 mins these must be booked in advance online on experienced skiers and snowboarders can use the main slope for free. I went skiing abroad three times with school and each time we came to Rossendale to prepare us so that we had the confidence to ski on snow.”

Michael klammer how to#

Sales and Marketing Director at Rossendale-based J and J Ormerod Jon Thelwell recalled: “In 1982, I was at school in Hyde and we came to Ski Rossendale to learn how to ski because we were going on a school skiing trip to Italy. “We will be creating a display of key dates for the celebration and we want people’s memories to be a part of that.” The Hill home of Ski Rossendale celebrating 50 years

So many people have memories of learning to ski at the slope and we want to hear from them. We are a not-for-profit business and we are all about people enjoying sport and having a positive experience whether as part of a group or an individual. “The ski slope is all about people and emotion. We are proud to have indirectly built on that vision that was first had back in 1963 and created and all year round ‘winter sports centre’. Marmoset monkeys on the loose in Lancashire after escaping from house as public urged to checkĪt the time it was mooted that Rossendale could become ‘a winter sports centre’ and 10 years’ later, and three years in the planning and construction, the £58,000 slope opened and plans began to revive the once-flourishing ski club.ĭave said: “The ski slope is a legacy and it is one we need to ensure is here for future generations to use and to look after.

Lancs chippy claims to sell the cheapest fish and chips in all of the UK Manager Dave Fuller was one of the first to learn how to ski when, aged 13, on November 5 1973, he took instructions from the original chief ski instructor Jean Marchal.Īs far back as December 1963, keen skier Michael Parsons from Waterfoot held a meeting to form Rossendale Ski Club as the snowy winters had meant the hills around the Valley had become popular for skiers in the winter months. There will be an open day on Saturday, June 10 from 10am to 5pm and a limited ticket evening after-party. Now, plans are in place for a 50th anniversary celebration event at The Hill – the new name for the centre off Haslingden Old Road, Rawtenstall. When Ski Rossendale opened in September 1973, at 500m it boasted the longest artificial ski slope and largest facility of its kind in the UK. A skiing venue will be holding its 50th anniversary celebration event.