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Hill End Ski Slope
Unknown, 1980, Photograph
Hill End Ski Slope
Hill End Ski Slope
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Item no
31473
Title
Hillend Ski Slope
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1980
Size
5.7 cm x 5.8 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
Accession number
24619
Hillend Ski Slope, now known as Midlothian Snow Sports Centre is a dry skiing slope and leisure facility on the Pentland Hills close to the border between Edinburgh and the neighbouring authority Midlothian. It has the longest artificial ski slope in Europe and is a training facility for many of Britain's winter Olympians. It was opened in the 1960's with money gifted to the council by business man and philanthropist George Boyd Anderson who had made a fortune planting rubber in Malaysia.
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