[6] The claim to the 1642 founding date appears to derive from a small book published by the club council in 1865, The Edinburgh Skating-Club with Diagrams of Figures and a List of the Members.

For admission to the club, candidates had to pass a skating test where they performed a complete circle on either foot (e.g., a figure eight), and then jumped over first one hat, then two and three, placed over each other on the ice.

[7] The favorite meeting place of club members was Duddingston Loch, near Edinburgh, Scotland.

The principal object of the club was the practice of a form of choreographed group skating.

The club also held an annual dinner where the standard dish served was "sheeps-heads and trotters",[1] perhaps in deference to the local Sheep Heid Inn in Duddingston.