Sheffield Ski Village

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sheffield Ski Village was an artificial ski slope complex in the Parkwood Springs area of Sheffield, England until destroyed by fire in 2012. It was believed to be the largest artificial ski resort in Europe^[1] with a sports shop, bar, restaurant and a range of slopes which include a Snowflex nursery slope, a dendix recreational slope and a freestyle park consisting of a half pipe, hip jump, kicker, a quarter pipe and various grind rails. The Sheffield Ski Village was also one of the main training grounds for the Yorkshire Freestyle Squad and many professional freestylers, such as James "Woodsy" Woods (slopestyle ski, third place in the European Winter X games, 2010/11) and Andrew Longley (freestyle moguls).

Sheffield Sharks Ski Club

The Sheffield Sharks Ski Club met at Sheffield Ski Village on Saturday mornings and Thursday evenings. The club was formed in 1990 to promote children's skiing, both at recreational and competitive levels. In 2004, the club became the CCPR UK Sports Club of the Year. The club was run on a voluntary basis by an elected committee of parents, with a dedicated team of instructors. Older members had the opportunity to become ski instructors themselves, and often instructed the younger children on the Saturday sessions.^[2] Sharks Ski Club continues to thrive but now meets at Xscape, Castleford on Saturday mornings from 9-11 am.

Other facilities

In addition to the Ski Village slopes there was a ten pin bowling alley, quad biking, laser tag and a downhill biking track designed by Steve Peat. Ski Village Bowling housed a state of the art ten pin bowling alley which opened in 2009. The full sized ten pin bowling lanes were built with Brunswick technology.^[3]

Fires

On 29 April 2012, the main building of the Ski Village was destroyed by a fire. The blaze occurred in the early hours of the morning and no-one was injured.^[4]

On 1 May 2012, a small hut containing controls for the ski lifts was destroyed in a second fire in the early hours of the morning.^[5]

References

↑ Sheffield Ski Village website
↑ Sheffield Sharks web site
↑ Ski Village Bowling website
↑ "Sheffield Ski village is destroyed in fire". BBC News. 29 April 2012. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
↑ "Second fire at Sheffield Ski Village". BBC News (BBC). 1 May 2012. Retrieved 1 May 2012.

External links

Coordinates: 53°23′56″N 1°28′37″W / 53.398889°N 1.476974°W / 53.398889; -1.476974

v t e Buildings in Sheffield, England

Civic and institutional	Central Library City Hall Cutlers' Hall Jessop Hospital National Union of Mineworkers headquarters Northern General Hospital Old Town Hall Royal Hallamshire Hospital Royal Infirmary Shrewsbury Hospital Town Hall

Commercial	Castle Market Crystal Peaks Digital Campus Dyson House 2 Haymarket Hillsborough Barracks Meadowhall Orchard Square St Pauls Tower Sheaf House Telephone House V1 Velocity Tower West.One

Educational	Alfred Denny Building Arts Tower Bioincubator Drama Studio Firth Court Goodwin Sports Centre Hicks Building Information Commons Octagon Centre Owen Building Pennine Centre Redvers House Sir Frederick Mappin Building University House

Industrial	Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet Beehive Works Brooklyn Works Butchers Wheel Cementation Furnace Cornish Place Globe Works Green Lane Works Leah's Yard Little Matlock Rolling Mill Moore Street electricity substation Sharrow Mills Shepherd Wheel Sydney Works Taylor's Eye Witness Works Well Meadow Street Crucible Furnace

Leisure and entertainment	Abbeydale Picture House Academy Birley Spa The Boardwalk Carbrook Hall The Cremorne Crucible Theatre Gatecrasher One Glossop Road Baths Hallam Tower Kelham Island Museum Leadmill Lyceum Theatre Millennium Galleries Motorpoint Arena Sheffield National Centre for Popular Music Old Queen's Head, Sheffield Odeon Sheffield Plug Showroom Cinema Weston Park Museum Winter Gardens

Religious	Churches in Sheffield Medina Mosque

Residential	Birley Old Hall Broom Hall Burrowlee House Carbrook Hall Endcliffe Hall Fair House Farmhouse Fulwood Hall Hallfield House Hillsborough House Leader House Loxley House Manor Castle Mount Pleasant Norton Hall Oakes Park Old Bank House Onesacre Hall Parkhead Hall Park Hill Queen's Tower Regent Court Revell Grange Riverdale House Stumperlowe Cottage Stumperlowe Hall Tapton Hall The Towers Whiteley Wood Hall Whitley Hall

Sporting	Bramall Lane Don Valley Stadium English Institute of Sport Hillsborough Stadium IceSheffield Look Local Stadium Owlerton Stadium Ponds Forge Sandygate Road Ski Village

Transport	Bridgehouses station Crystal Peaks bus station Interchange Midland station Victoria station Wicker station

Other structures	Cholera Monument Cobweb Bridge Lady's Bridge Park Square Bridge Tinsley Viaduct Totley Tunnel Wicker Arches

Lists of buildings	Brutalist apartment blocks Buildings and structures Listed buildings Pubs Tallest buildings and structures

Demolished buildings are shown in italics

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.