Why did Britain build 4,000 leisure centres?
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Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/ChrisSpargo Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/chrisspargo Thanks to Gerry Carver, Founder & Editor, and the Sports Leisure Legacy Advisory Group https://sportsleisurelegacy.co.uk/ The number of leisure centres in existence depends on how you define a "leisure centre" but the Sports Leisure Legacy Project reckons it's over 4,000 https://web.archive.org/web/20240216175110/https://sportsleisurelegacy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/UNITED-KINGDOM.pdf Some photos licenced from Alamy UK local government maps by XrysD on Wikipedia Newspapers extracts from the British Newspaper Archive Birmingham Daily Post - Saturday 22 January 1966 Larne Times - Thursday 16 January 1969 Music used: Otis McDonald - Sunday Otis McDonald - Sunday Skate in Golden Gate (I only just realised it has Sunday in the name again whaaaat) Otis McDonald - Rest
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