The demolition of Clydebank’s much-loved Play Drome leisure centre is continuing as Bankies’ happy memories of the facility fade further into history.
Our photographer Lesley Roberts captured these images of the building while she was out and about in the town centre on Saturday, and chronicled the latest stage in the centre’s demolition.
The Play Drome's demolition is continuing
It’s four years this month since the Play Drome’s doors closed for the last time on the opening of the new Clydebank Leisure Centre on the waterfront.
As reported in the Post over recent months, the site of the Play Drome continues to face an uncertain future after West Dunbartonshire Council, which owns the land, saw its plans to sell the site for a retail development fall through.
The Play Drome's demolition is continuing
Demolition began last month – but not before the Post reported on a new video created by a team of ‘urban explorers’ who managed to get past the Play Drome’s security cordon and capture video footage and still photographs from inside the abandoned building.
The video, published just before Christmas, is still available to view on the ‘Urbandoned’ channel on YouTube.
Clydebank Leisure Centre remains closed in line with Scotland’s lockdown restrictions, though an announcement by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, setting out a timetable for the easing of the country’s Covid limits, was expected as this issue of the Post went to press on Tuesday.
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