Ian Douglas was a pioneering Scottish manager at Bellahouston and Bishopbriggs sports centres. Ian trained in Physical Education at Jordanhill, and after teaching at Dollar Academy lectured in PE at Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities. He was appointed as Manager of Bellahouston Sports Centre at the age of 26 in 1967, Scotland’s first sports centre. Thus, […]
It is rare indeed that anyone could be regarded as a “legend” in more than one discipline, but in the case of Ted Blake it is arguable that he achieved legendary status in three. After leaving school at 14, Ted became an Army Physical Training Instructor during the War and qualified as a PE teacher […]
Reproduced with kind permission of Leisure Media Peter Sargent was one of the founding partners of sports and leisure architectural practice Sargent & Potiriadis (S&P), along with business partner Mark Potiriadis. The pair were among a small group of creative thinkers who transformed leisure architecture from the late 1970s onwards, with the creation of innovative […]
Billingham Forum, conceived in 1960 but not completed until 1967, was dubbed “the grandfather of leisure centres” by the art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, and “without question, the father of the British leisure centre” by Lance Wright, editor of the Architectural Review. It was designed by Elder Lester Architects. Billingham Forum anticipated the shift that […]
John trained as a PE teacher at Loughborough from 1951-54. After teaching he undertook further training at Carnegie before joining the CCPR as Research Officer in 1965. He was responsible for the first ever research study on Indoor Sports Centres in 1970-71. He transferred to the new executive Sports Council in 1970 and in 1974 […]
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