also, i have just found Bobs blog from google maps, but are there still any older ones that are no longer runnign tha ti have missed?

The Olympia, East Kilbride, open 1989 and still going strong with a mix of curling and skating

Magnum at Irvine is scheduled to close after this season and is to be replaced by an upgraded Harvies at Stevenson.

hth

Well recalled JJK. There was certainly curling at the Chrystals Arena in Glenrothes.

The other thing I remembered as I was falling asleep last night was that the current rink at Ayr is a replacement for an earlier facility.

The rink that was built at the Kelvin Hall for the 1985 Silver Broom was certainly quite a feat, and was always intended to be a temporary facility, just for the duration of the event. Not many know that there had been an ice rink in the Kelvin Hall in the 1930s which was used for skating. I can find no record of curling ever having been played on this earlier rink. During the war, the Kelvin Hall was on standby to be used as a morgue, had it been needed because of German bombing.

And thinking about temporary rinks, the one laid in Princes Street Gardens a few years back was used for a curling demonstration.

Bob

Thank you very much for all the help. Was the Coylumbridge rink a seperate one from Aviemore?

I have happy memories of playing in the rink in the Aviemore Centre, eg the Chalet Motels trophy! The Uniroyal World Junior Championship was held there in 1976, see here:
http://curlinghistory.blogspot.com/2008/08/uniroyal-world-junior-championship-1976.html

The Coylumbridge rink was in the grounds of what is now the Hilton Hotel. Jim is right, it was somewhat short, and curling was never the major activity. I believe it burnt down (?).

Bob