The award winning multi-million pound refurbishment of Darlington’s flagship leisure centre fully reopened on Saturday 16th December 2007.
The project represented the most significant revamp of the Centre since legendary athlete Sir Roger Bannister officially opened it in 1983.
The contractor chosen to carry out the work on the centre was HBG, whose track record includes working on the nationally renowned Baltic Centre, in Gateshead.
Michael Bell, a film-maker who chronicled the redevelopment of South Park, turned his attentions to the Dolphin Centre and produced a series of short films, focusing on different areas of the Centre being refurbished. Mr Bell’s film’s were added to the website as an innovative way of letting people see exactly what was going on and to give an idea of how everything will look once it is finished”.
View the first in the series of short films showing progress on the refurbishment (windows media file)
If you cannot view any of our films, you can download Windows Media Player