HIstory
The Magnet leisure centre has been a versitile place, it has held counts for the general and local elections within the town. It has starred in T.V shows such as Dickensons real deal and antiques roadshow. It has become the long serving home for a variety of clubs and charities for their cherished showpiece events such as the annual lions club swimarathon.
It has also had a cameo in hit 1991 sitcom The Brittas Empire. which poked some light fun at leisure centres and their staff at the time.
The Magnet leisure centre opened in 1975, 46 years ago. Magnet finally closed it doors in Autumn 2020 to make way for a new leisure centre nearby. The former leisure centre is set to be demolished to make way for 100's of new flats and apartments, which is being refferred to as a 'prison villiage'
The Explore
So this was quite a randon 1 as previously went here once back in 2019 swimming with the kids when it was open but had since completly forgotten about it.
It wasnt untill sometime last month that it randomly poped in to my head , so i got on google to find out what it was called again as i couldnt actualy remember.
After a quick search i found it but was saying it had now closed so with it actually being fairly local to me i decided to head down there and see if i could get in.
After a short walk around the building i found a way in. Of course with any leisure centre the main feature is the pool so got a few shots of the pools then headed deeper in to the building.
The place is absolutely huge but of course its already started to get smashed up, holes in the dry walls where the metal fairys have been and just general vandalism.
Also weirdly enough some parts of the building still have power with lights on in some of the most random places.
Then to my supprise as i was looking around i stumbled across a soft play area which was still intact!, Of course i just had to have a little go and get in the ball pit.
After all that fun id just about covered the whole building so decided to head out after a good few hours inside.
A pretty decent explore and 1 that didnt involve hours of driving which was nice!
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