It closed its doors after the half term break for “essential
maintenance” (which, if you know your ice hockey history has often in the past
meant the kiss of death for an ice rink…) and the local Blackpool Gazette has
now reported that the Trustees have since instructed insolvency firm Adcroft
Hilton to place it into liquidation.
Blackpool-based Adcroft Hilton today said customers who paid
deposits for parties or lessons face 'no prospect' of getting their money back.
Insolvency practitioner Rosalind Hilton said: "It is a shame when a local
leisure facility, run mostly by volunteers, has to shut, but there simply
wasn't enough people using the Ice Arena."
The Fylde Coast Ice Arena in nearby Bispham is still open
for business – despite being the subject of insolvency proceedings back in
August – and they have entered their own Fylde Coast Phantoms team in the NIHL
North Under 13 League. They played their
first ever game on 31st October and lost 27-0 away at Nottingham Under
13s
The Wyre Seagulls recreational team have moved their
training sessions to Blackburn Arena because the Seagulls coaches are banned from the Fylde Coast
Ice Arena following a disagreement with
the management there back in February.
