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DG One swimming pool is temporarily located in the Ice Bowl car park. TimetableMonday5.30pm and 6.30pm: Public skating10.30pm to 11.30pm: Learn to play ice hockey (adults)TuesdayNoon to 1.30pm: Public skating4pm to 5pm: Learn to play ice hockeyWednesdayNoon to 1.30pm: Public skating5.30pm and 6.30pm: Public skatingThursdayNoon to 1.30pm: Public skating4pm to 5pm: Learn to play ice hockeyFriday11am to 12noon: Snowtots (cancelled Friday 10 February)Noon to 1.30pm: Public skating and Snowtots (cancelled Friday 10 February)7.30pm to 9pm: Ice disco (cancelled Friday 10 February)Saturday10am to 11.30pm: Family public skating (cancelled Saturday 11 February)11.30am to 12.30pm: Snowtots (cancelled Saturday 11 February)2pm to 3.30pm: Public skating (cancelled Saturday 11 February)Sunday2pm to 3.30pm: Public skating (cancelled Sunday 12 February)PricesActivityPricesSkating (Includes public skating, ice discos and learn to play Ice Hockey sessionsJunior session £4.10 (Skate hire £2)Adult session £5.30 (Skate hire £2.20)Snowtots (5 and under only)1 adult and 1 child £4.00Additional child £2.00Cafe opening
timesMonday to Friday: 3pm to 8pmSaturday: 10am to 4pmSunday: 12noon to 4pmLocation mapKing Street, Dumfries, DG2 9ANParking is available on site, additional car parking is available within close proximity including the Pamerston Park football stadium.EnquiriesEmail icebowl@dumgal.gov.ukLike Dumfries Ice Bowl on FacebookFollow @dumfriesicebowl on TwitterCall 01387 251300ClubsSolway Sk8ing Club - figure skaters (including adults) and synchronised teamsTraining for all ages and competition at national and international level.Solway Sharks Junior Ice Hockey Club - ice hockey from under 10s up to senior levelsCoaching, team opportunities and development with training sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays.Solway Sharks Ladies Ice Hockey Club - ice hockey for female playersThe club train on Tuesday nights and play matches in the English North Division 1 League.Solway Sharks - any home matches face-off at 7pm on a Saturday nightThe club play in the Moralee Conference of the National Ice Hockey League (North).
Lowland Raiders Ice Hockey Club - pathway from learn to play through to recreational levelTraining takes place on a Sunday night.Dumfries Demons - the oldest ice hockey club in DumfriesLearn and play ice hockey from 18 years old.Dumfries Ice Bowl Curling Association - promoting curling locallyOrganising senior leagues, competitions and coaching.Dumfries Young Curlers - junior training programmeCoaching for young curlers aged 6 years and older. Sleeps low to high Sleeps high to low Review high to low Home > Scotland > Dumfries and GallowayThis article originally appeared in the February 2012 issue of Architectural Digest.Several years ago, a major drama unfolded in Great Britain when Dumfries House, one of the most significant and beautiful historic properties in the Commonwealth, teetered on the verge of sale and dispersal. The 18th-century Palladian villa in Ayrshire, Scotland, is a seminal work of renowned architect Robert Adam and his brothers, John and James; it contains a world-class collection of British Rococo furniture, including some 50 examples from a fledgling cabinetmaker named Thomas Chippendale.
Ordered straight from the craftsman’s workshop in 1759 by the fifth Earl of Dumfries, who commissioned the house and took up residence there the following year, the furnishings now form part of a magnificent ensemble that embodies, in the words of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, “British craftsmanship at its best.”The fate of the mansion had begun to seesaw in 2005, when John Crichton-Stuart, the seventh Marquess of Bute (a celebrated Formula One driver whose family had inherited the Dumfries title in the early 19th century), felt the strain of balancing its ownership with that of Mount Stuart, the immense Victorian Gothic palace and grounds where he currently resides. Dumfries, exquisite and well looked after though it was, had not been lived in by the family for some 150 years, except for a near-40-year residency by the fifth marquess’s widow, from 1956 to 1993. It truly was a sleeping beauty.When a deal to sell the 2,000-acre property to the Scottish National Trust fell through, Lord Bute took the bold move of marketing it via an estate agency and hiring Christie’s to sell off its holdings.
Experts at the auction house began documenting the contents of the mansion; a two-volume catalogue was produced, and sale dates were set for July 12 and 13, 2007.Just weeks before the auction, however, Dumfries’s plight came to the attention of Prince Charles—a tireless, and rather fearless, advocate of British heritage. (In 2009 he famously halted a multibillion-dollar steel-and-glass residential development, designed by Richard Rogers and planned for London’s historic Chelsea Barracks, after expressing his dismay about the project to a member of Qatar’s royal family, owners of the property in question.) Upon hearing more about Dumfries’s dire situation, the prince promptly sent his representatives to Scotland to negotiate the estate’s purchase. The auction was called off, and several truckloads of treasure already en route to London returned home.Thanks to Prince Charles’s leadership—one of his foundations pledged a $40-million loan, allied with $50 million raised from other sources—Dumfries was acquired by a specially created trust and saved, not just for the British people, but for anyone who cares about great architecture and decoration.
The prince’s job was not yet done, though. If saving the house was a major drama, then restoring it became the not-to-be-missed final act.Dumfries opened to the public while its royal champion assembled a top-drawer group of advisers to study the building in preparation for an ambitious rebirth. Work that took three years to plan was executed in just five months—breakneck speed, as these things go—in the fall and winter of 2010.The committee included Charlotte Rostek, Dumfries’s newly appointed curator; Sir Hugh Roberts, the retired Surveyor of the Queen’s Works of Art; and two of England’s preeminent interior designers, David Mlinaric and Baron Piers von Westenholz. Mlinaric, founder of the firm Mlinaric, Henry & Zervudachi, is known for his refined style and considerable experience renewing significant buildings, among them Lord Rothschild’s French-Renaissance-style Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire. He consulted on issues of architectural and historical correctness while Westenholz, an antiques dealer and decorator whose stately yet inviting rooms are much favored by Britain’s elite, took the lead in devising the interior schemes, deftly reviving the sleeping beauty.“
When I first saw the house, it didn’t have much atmosphere,” Westenholz admits. “That’s understandable, as it was completely unlived-in. What I tried to do was make it like a grand British country house should be—comfortable and elegant.” As Rostek adds, “Right from the start, it was the express wish of His Royal Highness not to present Dumfries as a museum. He didn’t want ropes or stands. He wanted the guides to act like hosts and the visitors to feel like guests. It’s actually a very sensual experience to visit the house.”Before the decorative direction was set, Westenholz made a proposal to the committee for each room, which generally inspired spirited debate. Often a certain member of the group “tipped the balance,” Rostek says. “[Prince Charles] was extremely passionate about the project, and very involved,” attests Westenholz. “I showed him everything. Luckily he liked nearly all of it.”Efforts began with the removal of furniture for restoration—all except the most valuable item, a rare Chippendale rosewood bookcase, which was looked after in situ.
(Estimated by Christie’s to be worth as much as $8 million, it likely would have set a record price for a piece of English furniture had it been sold.) Prince Charles and his consultants made a point of employing scores of laborers from across Great Britain to work at Dumfries. New heating, wiring, and plumbing were installed, proving to be the costliest elements of the endeavor; experts were brought in to unearth intricate original painted decorations on the walls and ceilings and to repair the exceptional Rococo plasterwork. Humphries Weaving, a firm based in Suffolk, created vivid silk damasks—sapphire-blue for a drawing room, lemon-yellow for a parlor—and other fabrics, many of which were copied from documents surviving from the house’s earliest days.Taken together, the improvements at Dumfries have made it newly resplendent. And yet it is far from done, according to Westenholz. “Work is going on all the time,” he says. “It’s different today than it was last week. But now there is atmosphere.