QUEENS Skate Dine Bowl

Its name might not leave much to the imagination but that does nothing to negate the charm of Bayswater’s iconic Queens Skate Dine Bowl. Boasting a 1,100 square-metre ice rink, a burger restaurant, and 12 bowling lanes, the Queensway fun palace has been a popular choice for generations of west Londoners’ childhood birthday parties. What’s more, this isn’t just any old all-year-round ice rink (although in central London, that is a rarity), but the oldest one in the UK, having been hosting skaters since it was built, way back in 1930, when it was founded by  entrepreneur and ice skating enthusiast Arthur Octavius Edwards. As well as standard ice skating sessions – by which we mean ‘slowly shuffling around the edges while clinging to the railings for dear life’ sessions – it also hosts skating lessons, ice curling sessions and even the ‘ice karting’.