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Preston Curling Club was founded on the 16^th September 1871.

The Club played matches against teams from nearby towns on local ponds in and around Preston.  In 1911 the Club received an invitation to play at the Manchester Ice Palace (an indoor Ice Rink).  Preston Curling Club continued to play on local ponds and also travel on mass by coach to the Manchester Ice Palace until the Ice Palace closed its doors in 1964.  Between 1965 and 1980 Preston Curling club played matches at the Blackpool Ice rink.  The Clubs players did however travel up to Scotland on numerous occasions and made friendly rivalries with teams north of the Border.  The Preston Vs Dalbeattie match was first played in December 1966 and still continues to this day.  The prizes being a Scottsh Haggis for the best Preston team and a Lancashire Cheese for the best Dalbeattie team.  We host an annual event, the I’Anson, at the North West Castle in November. From 1980-2018 Preston Curling Clubs Home was Lockerbie Ice Rink.   Preston Curling Club have a new home at the newly opened Flower Bowl (a few miles north of Preston),  with a 4 sheet dedicated Curling Rink, which is part of an amazing entertainment centre.  Already the Club and its members feel at home there.

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The Curling Club Düsseldorf was founded in Switzerland in 1961 as Curling Club Deutschland and is the oldest curling club in Germany.

It also immediately became a member of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club. Düsseldorf was chosen as the home of the club as the majority of the club’s founding members came from the Rhineland region.

The ice rink in Düsseldorf does not have dedicated curling ice but is also used for ice hockey and figure skating, posing challenging conditions for curling and equalising experience differences between players rather effectively. This leads to interesting games with ever-changing ice conditions. The club hosts two recreational bonspiels a year, one internal tournament before Christmas for which teams are drawn at random, and one international tournament, the “Radschläger”, which typically takes place in February or early March. Members of the club have participated in German Championships in the past, however, today, club activity is mostly focused on recreational curling and socialising, the club-internal league and occasional participation of teams in international tournaments.

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Team:

Karolin Wingendorf, Andreas Kaulhausen, Ricarda Heck, Lisa Poestges, Richard Doerrenberg

The club was established in 1971, initiated by the legendary twin brothers Per and Sten Willer-Andersen – famous and enthusiastic members of the European / world curling community in the 1970’s and ’80’s.

Rungsted Curling Club was at the same time one of the main suppliers of elite players to the Danish 1. division; for some: the national teams.

At the Nagano Winter Olympics in 1998 Denmark’s national women’s curling team won the silver medals. One of the players was Trine Qvist from Rungsted Curling Club.

In August 2013 our curling club was expelled from Horsholm Ice Arena, leaving 150 members without a place to curl! (…and this remains our current situation…)

The local municipal council had chosen professional ice hockey as their favourite – goodbye to curling after half a century…

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Founded in 1807, The Royal Montreal Curling Club is the oldest active athletic club in North America.

It was during the reign of King George III, when Montreal was a town of perhaps 12,000, that 20 merchants and a chaplain who liked to curl together on the ice of the St. Lawrence River decided to form a curling club. The group met on January 22, 1807, in Gillis Tavern, where The Montreal Curling Club was born, the oldest established sports club still active in North America.

In 1860 The Montreal Curling Club moved to an indoor rink on Drummond Street, near the present site of the Mount Stephen Club. Twenty-eight years later, a lot on St. Catherine Street between St. Mathieu and St. Marc was purchased for construction of a new curling shed. Opened in 1889, it has remained our rink ever since. The following year we sold the portion of the land fronting on St. Catherine Street and acquired a lot on the other side of the shed, then 56 St. Luke Street (now 1850 Boulevard de Maisonneuve West), to build a club house. Designed by Hyde & Nobbs, it was opened on Christmas Eve 1892, and expanded to its present size in 1912.
 The curling shed was built in the style of the famous Victoria Arena (where the Montreal Maroons later played hockey), on a frame of laminated wood in arched girders, permitting a large, free space unencumbered by pillars. It is the only known example of this type of structure still in existence.

On February 23, 1924, a Royal Warrant was issued granting the Club the right to add the word “Royal” to its name. Henceforward it would be known as The Royal Montreal Curling Club (RMCC).

Though the Royal Montreal Curling Club has for many years welcomed men and women members, the Royal Montreal Curling Club, Ladies’ branch, has been associated with the club since 1894 and actively continues to manage their leagues and to sponsor their events.

Over the last 30 years, many curling clubs in Montreal and Westmount have closed their doors: Heather in 1975, followed in 1982 by Montreal Caledonia and Greystone, then St George, and in 2001, Thistle. We remain the only curling club close to the downtown area still in operation, a heritage monument and, as Guy Hemmings put it, truly a shrine to curling in Canada.

Settlers began curling on the frozen Milwaukee River in the early 1840’s and officially formed the Milwaukee Curling Club (MCC) in 1845.

The modern game of curling evolved rapidly during the 1900’s, aided in large part by the move indoors through the use of refrigerated ice.  MCC relocated to Riverside Park in 1915, where two covered sheets of ice provided a fixed home for the next 55 years.  In 1970, the club built a four-sheet curling shed and clubhouse located at Ozaukee Country Club in Mequon, Wisconsin.  The club moved into a new five-sheet facility at the Ozaukee County fairgrounds in Cedarburg, Wisconsin to begin the fall season in 2012.

Today, Milwaukee Curling Club is the oldest curling club in continual existence in the United States

Elaine Spain

Ann Whitelaw,

Elaine Paterson

Gaylor Hoskins

Elspeth Caldow

Anne Moore

Heather Gough

Maureen Lewis

Sandy Hay

Robin Kay

Hector Snoddy

Willie Young

Iain Robertson

Johnny Nelson

John Cassells

Susan Scougal

Angela Wilcox

Sue Cameron

Eileen Thomas

Edna Nelson

Maggie Saunderson

Alan Barr

Albert Rae

Jim Stevenson

Robert Stevenson

Boyd Houston

Iain Gwynne

Ian Galloway

Peter Walls

Brian Johnston

Stuart Brand

Hamish Galloway

Bill Melville

Arthur Jenkins,

David Rutherford

Jim Bennie,

Mike Dougall,

Stuart Andrew,

Kerr Watson

Lorne Findlay

M Silvera

J White

D McFadzean

S Matthews

I McIntyre

M McIntyre

Jimmy Johnson

Alan Paterson

Tom McColgan

Willie Thomson