The Thompson Centre in Burnley
The William Thompson Recreation Centre was officially opened in Burnley in 1974 on the site adjacent to the Central Library. This film made by Burnley Film Maker, Bernard Hill covers the development of the Centre from the initial planning stages through to its official opening.
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Brilliant video. This centre should never have been demolished.
Superb video, makes me think of a much more peaceful, safer time. Love old England/
Brilliant! My dad is in the video too, massive surprise and quite emotional watching that. He was the town mace bearer.
tank you, Mr Thompson. X
Should never have been demolished. Such a great place in comparison to St Peters centre
Fantastic video! That brought some memories back to me. It's where I learnt to swim in the late 70s.
Great video, remember playing 5 a side their after work in the mid 90s. Sadly by then it did need some modernisation, still such a loss. Ironic it went back to being a carpark!!!
Brilliant. And a glimpse of my old boss when I was a trainee civil engineer, Mr Ashby, the Borough Surveyor.
The carving is now at crow wood
Happy memories at that place ! It was part of the spirit of Burnley ! Miss old times don’t like these evil times we are in now !
They pulled down a sports centre to build a car park. Then they pulled down a car park to build a sports centre down the road.
I spent most Sunday afternoons there in the late 80's, hours in the pool and diving boards.
Marvellous piece of history well captured
Fantastic video. Brought back great memories. Loved the diving board in the Thompson Centre. It was so high. X
Many Many Happy memories at the Thompson centre, it needed badly updating ,which iam sure could have been done ,but ,typically with BBC ,money before investment, in this case . Never had the pleasure of swimming in the St Peters centre, nor will i bother. Should imagine a car park will reside on the bottom of Centenary way for a damn long time
A brilliant video. Such a shame though as its now what it once was "A Car Park"..
Had a school swimming lesson on the Friday before it shut, I remember they gave us an extra five mins in the pool. Trying to find the exact day it shut, if it was that Friday then seven year old me was one of the last people to use the pool.
Burnley. . Burnley.
Lets knock it down and build a car park
And now it is a car park