Looking back on magical memories at Great Yarmouth’s Marina Centre
For 30 years, the Marina Centre has been the place to keep fit and have fun on Great Yarmouth's Golden Mile.
Inside the Marina Centre in Great Yarmouth, 12th November 1987. Photo: Archant Library - Credit: Archant Library
Whether it was a dip in the pool, a chance to test your skills in bowls or compete in a bodybuilding competition, the leisure centre had activities for locals and holiday-makers alike to enjoy themselves.
Now the leisure centre's walls will come down and make way for a multi-million pound development next year.
While most of the feedback has been positive, the Borough council received a petition calling for the centre to be built elsewhere.
However, despite thousands of signatures to save the building, the 1980s centre will be knocked down and closed to the public on October 31 and construction for the new centre is due to begin in Spring 2020.
The public inspect the wave-making machine at Marina Centre in Great Yarmouth, 12th June 1981. Photo: Archant Library - Credit: Archant Library
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The Great Yarmouth Mercury dug through the Archant archives to share our fondest memories of the Marina Centre ahead of its closure.
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The old men of bodybuilding, the seiors compete a stones throw from the tropies in the Anglian Bodybuilding Championships at The Marina Centre, Yarmouth, June 1993. Picture: Archant library - Credit: Archant
Aerial view of the Marina Centre in Great Yarmouth. Picture: Archant library - Credit: Archant
(1of2) Mercury story - Gt. Yarmouth Lord Mayor David Thompson cuts the ribbon to open the Gt. Yarmouth indoor Bowls Club at the Marina Centre. - Credit: Eastern Counties Newspapers
Rising Stars feature on the Yarmouth indoor bowls club under 21 open bowls tournament.Photo: Nick ButcherCopy:For: EDP Rising StarsEDP pics © 2007(01603) 772434 - Credit: EDP pics © 2007
Great Yarmouth Indoor Bowls Sports & Social club which are based at the Marina Centre in Great Yarmouth are hitting back at claims that the Centre is Dirty.Picture: Steve ParsonsCopy: Rob AllansonFor : GYM © EDP pics 2004 Tel: (01603) 772434 - Credit: ©EDP pics 2004 (01603) 772434
Marina swim pool - Credit: Archant
