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public had ‘shown that they
fully appreciated swimming
in the Thames in summer, but
the winter months found the
floating structure empty’. But
trying to freeze the water with
‘two ice machines’ so people
could skate proved difficult,
as the ‘extensive area of glass
roof . . . greatly raises the
temperature of the internal
atmosphere’. Still, The Times
reported ‘ice two inches
thick’ had been formed and