The Lamp Room

Yeah all those floods were in original mint condition complete with gear boxes. Gutted I couldn't save the damn things but the people who could have helped with that were elusive to say the least. Yeah that SC2 thing is a waste of space and of very poor design by comparison to the Sun centre and is one seriously ugly structure.

The sun centre will need discussing at the next meet up off-the record for numerous reasons - long story

Oh, that’s really depressing , just been looking at the SC2 website, the new build is soulless, bleached out and with very little design thought!
There’s no character like the old one had, none of the sandstone walls, no palm trees, no decorations at all!, the building looks a third of the size too, that’s so sad!

It’s good they built a new one, but it’s looks a half assed attempt just to keep people sweet!

Half assed is it - welcome to the new Denbighshire - and yeah it is a fraction of the size and a waste of tax payers money. As for the old sun centre - don't get me started lol, we can have a chat about it at the next meet - suffice to say the assets of Denbighshire have been squandered away

Labour council?

A place not too far from me which we used to frequent as kids called Heatwaves in Stockbridge village was also demolished about 10 years ago which was a shame. Was demolished by the local Labour council to, surprise surprise, make way for a housing development which was probably one of the councillors chums and got a nice kickback for it...

Was quite an iconic building as the roof was supported by a big tall mast and a big external trestle which could be seen for miles. Inside there was no pillars or anything, just one big massive pool area.

I'm sure that place was lit by SON in big white floods. It had a wave machine and as a small kid in the early 90's that was like magic lol.

Doesn't surprise me - and yes Denbighshire has majority of Labour. Never thought of it that way but now you say it it makes sense

The swimming pool in my old home town near Bristol had exactly the same arrangement of SON+HPI in red-painted HNF001. They never changed the colour, all lamps burned together and it gave an interesting effect on the rippling water to see the combination of orange and blueish reflections.

The Sun Center looked its best at night, (sadly I don’t have a photo of that), but like James says, the mix of SON/HPI was amazing on water, and with the added bonus of SL lamps in the walkway lighting, coupled with the palm trees and yellows/reds and sky blue in the paint scheme, it was a tropical paradise at night!
For those who are not familiar with Rhyls iconic Sun Center here it is in its hayday, and compare this to its soulless replacement!

And it’s replacement!

The swimming pool in my old home town near Bristol had exactly the same arrangement of SON+HPI in red-painted HNF001. They never changed the colour, all lamps burned together and it gave an interesting effect on the rippling water to see the combination of orange and blueish reflections.

That is exactly how I remember it - I loved the effect and plan to reproduce it hehe

The Sun Center looked its best at night, (sadly I don’t have a photo of that), but like James says, the mix of SON/HPI was amazing on water, and with the added bonus of SL lamps in the walkway lighting, coupled with the palm trees and yellows/reds and sky blue in the paint scheme, it was a tropical paradise at night!
For those who are not familiar with Rhyls iconic Sun Center here it is in its hayday, and compare this to its soulless replacement!

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Well said. Just seen this post. Yes it was something special and all that lovely retro lighting was for me part of the experience. Real shame it all went but I'm working on reproducing the lighting effect of those big floods. I think I have identified the exact cold-colour lamp and colour temp now hehe