This photograph shows the demolition of the Sports Stadium West Street in the latter part of 1965/6. The view looking west shows Sussex Heights clearly in the background and to the far left is the Metropole Hotel. The old swimming pool installed in 1934 is quite clearly visible and so are the portholes around the inside of the pool. The Swimming Stadium was transformed into an ice rink in the October of 1935. Ironically thirty years later when the workmen were tearing up the floor, the original scaffolding had not moved an inch. Considering it was only put up as a temporary measure in 1935, it showed the workmen had done an excellent job initially in securing the scaffolding.

Photo from the private collection of Trevor Chepstow