frogex
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This place has many reports on here but I thought I needed to add this report to show how bad it has got. Other reports show a reception/cafe/adventure playground which is now a pile of burnt wood, even the lifts are no longer there and much of the artificial slope has vanished. This will never open again and in a few more months it might not be recognsable.
FROM: The Sheffield Star3rd January 2013:
Built at a cost of £2.5 million by city entrepreneur John Fleetham, and unveiled in 1988, in its heyday Sheffield’s Ski Village attracted 180,000 visitors a year.
The country’s top skiers would gravitate to the city just to use the state-of-the-art site.
A national training centre was developed for the British Ski Federation, with a 30-degree ramp and a 60ft pool for skiers to practise twists, turns and somersaults into water.
Facilities grew to include a bowling alley and space for children’s birthday parties and even weddings.
Today the news the ski village will likely never re-open marks a ‘sad day for Sheffield’, politicians said.
The slopes
Think this is what is left of the bar
the T bar lift que area
FROM: The Sheffield Star3rd January 2013:
Built at a cost of £2.5 million by city entrepreneur John Fleetham, and unveiled in 1988, in its heyday Sheffield’s Ski Village attracted 180,000 visitors a year.
The country’s top skiers would gravitate to the city just to use the state-of-the-art site.
A national training centre was developed for the British Ski Federation, with a 30-degree ramp and a 60ft pool for skiers to practise twists, turns and somersaults into water.
Facilities grew to include a bowling alley and space for children’s birthday parties and even weddings.
Today the news the ski village will likely never re-open marks a ‘sad day for Sheffield’, politicians said.
The slopes
Think this is what is left of the bar
the T bar lift que area
