This week a youth centre that has stood for more than 100 years in Bermondsey, south London, will be demolished to make way for a modern centre. Few centres have the heritage of the Salmon Youth Centre but many share its problems. The old coffee bar and ping pong table just don't cut it with today's young people and the youth centre is having to adapt.
Modern demands
The new Salmon Youth Centre will have space for indoor sports as well as a performance arts studio, a rehearsal space, arts and craft facilities, a cafe and an IT suite. The old one had a sprung wooden floor and table tennis. David Mellis, the senior development manager at the centre, says: "It even had a rifle range under the gym at the bottom."
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