Week 2: SPORTS IN WOLVERTON

When a deceased neighbour’s house was being cleared, Jane and Steve Bryant rescued about 30 films that had been thrown into a skip .  That neighbor was Ernie Arthur.  He was a keen amateur film maker whose films captured local events and places in and around Wolverton.  This very short sequence features the former open-air Swimming Pool and the Sports Ground, showing the original Sports Pavilion and the building that replaced it, the notorious ‘Pineapple’, that appeared in about 1972-3.  It was demolished in 1980 and the shell was sold to a chicken farm in Somerset!

For more information about the Sports Ground see this article on our website: https://www.livingarchive.org.uk/content/local-history/areas/wolverton/ian-johnson

Sports in Wolverton is part of the Wolverton on Film 2 DVD, which can be purchased from our on-line shop https://www.livingarchive.org.uk/content/online-shop/dvds

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