Here we looked at the facilities at the new Oasis ‘Pleasuredome’ on it’s opening 44 years ago on New Year’s Day 1976. At the time it was heralded that ‘Swindon now had the nation’s, maybe even Europe’s most spectacular, futuristic and…“space-age-like” indoor swimming experience and leisure complex.’ Indeed in 1977 the American Swimming Pool Association voted it the world’s best swimming complex.

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