I'm sure that Raleigh has changed quite a bit,since I was there in February 1957, however we also had loads of sports facilities then as well.
We had two pool tables. 1 ping pong table three bats two balls (and not from the short arm inspections either lol.) 1 dart board, bring your own darts, 1 ludo game (we didn't know what "Uckers" was then) a "Quoits board" several sets of dominoes, a chess set, no tele !!! and that was between the whole training division of seaman, probably 8 huts with roughly 40 to a hut.
No vending machines for a cuppa, or a snack, the NAAFI was almost at the gate and was only opened till 9.30 I think ?? could only afford to drink once a fortnight anyhow, and that was approximately a good half mile from our huts The pool was out of bounds at nights, too knackered to use it anyway !!
But I enjoyed every minute of it and wouldn't have missed it for the world !!! and they paid us UK. 2 pounds, eight shillings sterling a fortnight, boy were we spoiled in the dark ages lol. (ie. 28/shillings a week including uniform allowance of 11 pence a day) and we got ashore to "Torpoint" if I remember correctly once or maybe twice during training!! OHHHHH !! happy days lol.
Those certainly were the days we really got spoiled by the government of the day,, and shore postings, "Never heard of them for for O/D's coming out of training, straight to small ships, minesweepers and below, that soon tightened the stomach muscles ha ha ha .
regards
pingbosun