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Derby Baths, Blackpool. 1939. Photo: Saidman Brothers Blackpool / Ian10B private collection.
The baths opened in 1939 just before the start of the second World War. It was located on the Promenade at the junction with Warley Road. It cost £270,000 to build.
The baths was frequently referred to as the Wembley of Swimming. The National Centralised Swimming and Diving Championships were held there from 1953 through the 1950's and 1960's and many events were televised. Swimming Galas for all the local schools were also held in July and November.
The pool was 50 metres in length with one, three, five and ten metre diving stages. In old money I remember the access steps to the pool being located at depths of 3ft 6ins", 5ft, 7ft and 16ft. On the south elevation of the building there was a large sun bathing terrace adjacent to the roof which was the length of the pool. There was also a large cafe at the east end of the seating area.
Sadly the baths were demolished amid much controversy in 1990. The site is now vacant and grassed over.
to be continued...........
1866 Warrington's public baths were opened. They were bought by the council in 1873. Two more pools were added in 1912. As you can see in one of the photographs the police Force also used them as a training centre
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Buckhorn Baths
Another example of a disappearing vintage neon sign. The following article from the Phoenix NewTimes tells the story behind this most interesting sign and business: "The Buckhorn Baths have been on the corner of Main Street and Recker Road in Mesa since 1936. In its heyday, the 10-acre property included a bathhouse annex with 25 whirlpool hot tubs, a motel, and a wildlife museum. Its large neon, Vegas-style sign beckoned to weary travelers from the middle of nowhere across an expanse of undeveloped desert. Seventy four years later, Buckhorn Baths is a place lost in time, an urban ghost town surrounded by gas stations, drug stores, and housing developments. It's certainly rustic, but its decay is beautiful in its own way, tempered by nostalgia. Walking this immense, abandoned property (which still has all buildings intact), we can only imagine what this place was like when it was thriving. Unfortunately, Buckhorn Baths closed in 1999, and the property has been for sale ever since. Ted Sliger, who opened the business with his wife Alice, died in 1984. Alice Sliger is now 103, and understandably past the point of trying to run a bathhouse/motel on her own. But she hopes the property, which has been rumored to be in danger of eventual razing for redevelopment, will eventually sell to someone who'd rather restore the place. Buckhorn Baths used to be a place frequented by professional baseball players during spring training, and it's now part of an exhibit on the Cactus League at the Arizona Museum for Youth. It's also near the top of the Society for Commercial Archaeology's 10 endangered roadside places in the U.S.. Even closed, Buckhorn Baths is a roadside attraction. The sign alone is worth visiting, and the property itself still holds a kind of dilapidated, folksy charm. The strip of adobe-style buildings resembles a street out of the Wild West, with swinging, saloon-style doors between storefronts. Barrel cactuses, which once stood proudly along the front of the main building, are now uprooted and overturned, some laying on their sides and yellowing in the sun. On the side of one building, birds have turned an old air conditioning unit into a giant nest. Many of the windows, which have been coated with beige paint, are cracked. Grass is growing on some parts of the roof. The smell of horse dung lingers at the front of the property. The buildings are all locked, but the outside property is easily accessible, and there are still some signs of life here."
Now that you're squared away in your room, it's time to head down to the 2nd floor and experience what you came here for in the first place...the Bakers' threapeutic mineral baths!
Ladies' bath area, Baker Hotel, Mineral Wells, Texas.
Night, ambient sodium vapor from several windows, red, turquoise, green and purple-gelled strobes in the bath stalls along the right, blue strobe in the showers at left, pink and yellow strobes in the sauna and steam rooms, and yellow strobe in the open back room as well. Added a touch of maglite to the ceiling for texture too. The sodium desaturated the colors along the right side substantially.
Learn more about this remarkable old hotel on my Baker Hotel Set Page.
Buxton Baths seen from The Slopes.
Taken with an Olympus PEN EE S half-frame camera on Kentmere 100 B&W film.
Visited the Derbyshire Spa Town of Buxton today, and went to the old "Buxton Baths" building, which has been refurbished and opened as a retail area with this stained glass roof.
Ruins of the Baths of Caracalla. These were the second largest Roman baths or thermae, built during the reign of Emperor Caracalla.
Location: 39 Lower Clapton Road, Hackney, London E5 0NU, England
From The 1000 Year Swim:
"Public swimming pool and baths. 1894-97. By Edward Harnor and Frederick Pinches. Portland stone front with slate roof ...
A major programme of modernisation was carried out in the early 1990s. The baths retain numerous features of interest as well as a handsome frontage, and are listed as a building of special interest, embodying late Victorian civic concern for the promotion of cleanliness and fitness."
Circa 1894-7 by Baggerley Bristow. Mostly 2 storeys with semi-basements. Symmetrical façade with 3 bay centrepiece linked by 3 bay extensions to wings. Slated hipped roofs with central leaded dome with balustraded parapet; wing roofs with wooden cupolas; 2 bell towers with corner pinnacles flank dome. Rusticated limestone ashlar podium, with tooled ashlar dressings to coursed squared rubble facing on ground and 1st floors. Console bracketed cornices with blocking course; centre block with carved parapet terminated by obelisk and with enriched centrepiece bearing the Harrogate Coat of Arms. Principal 3 light windows of modified Venetian type with pilasters and segmental pediments; wings and centre entrance bay with lunettes. Prostyle Doric portico in antis.
Originally housed a hydrotherapy centre established by the Corporation of Harrogate as part of its vision to establish Harrogate as the Nation's Spa Town, having been one since the late 16th-century. The Royal Baths continued in full operation through to 1969, winding down fairly rapidly after losing a National Health Service contract in that year.
Opened by the Duke of Cambridge, Prince George on July 23, 1897.
The above image was taken on Sunday 1st June 2014 at Victoria Baths, Manchester.
This was my first time at Victoria Baths and during this visit I decided to shoot exclusively using a very wide angle lens (a 12mm Sigma) and also use my usual HDR style.
For more information about Victoria Baths see the site:
#Manchester #Victoria #baths #hdr #sigma #12mm
Disused swimming pool.
An HDR blend of three images taken with my compact.
Used as a filming location for the ITV drama series Mrs Biggs. The drama Mrs Biggs stars Sheridan Smith as Charmian Biggs, the wife of the Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs played by Daniel / Danny Mays.
In an early scene in episode 1 Charmian is seen working in an office whilst Ronnie is seen in an empty swimming pool talking about a girl he met on the train that he was looking forward to seing again. If only he had walked round the corner in Victoria Baths he'd have seen her a lot sooner because both scenes were filmed at the Baths. And here is a shot of the other pool in the building.
Other locations seen in the series were filmed around Manchester's Northern Quarter and can be seen in later episodes disguised as rundown parts of London. Charming.
I also believe from a friend of a friend who saw them filming, that some of the pub scenes were filmed in Manchester's Britons Protection pub on Great Bridgewater Street.
The Victoria Baths have also been used for other TV stuff like Life On Mars.
The Baths are a listed building on Hathersage Road, Chorlton-On-Medlock not far from the "Curry Mile" in Rusholme, Manchester.
It appeared on the BBC's Restoration programme a few years ago and got a fairly sizeable sum to be added to some funds from The National Lottery to help to restore it to its former glory. We've not been for a while but they seem to have made steady progress over the years, but it is far from the finished article, so to speak.
Well worth a visit but please check the opening times as there are only a few days you can gain access.
Part of my "Victoria Baths by davekpcv" set on Flickr.
11-Dec-2024 12:50
Ilford PanF+ 50 @ EI 50
XTOL 1+1 : 7¾ mins @ 20C
Pre-Wash : None
Inversions first 30 sec then 5 sec every 30 sec
Two water Stop Baths - 1 min each
Zero Image Eco Alkali Fixer
Clearing time 2 min. Total fix time 4 mins
Initial wash to remove fixer : 1 min
Washing : 10 mins with frequent water changes
Ilfotol : 1 ml in 800ml for 2 minutes
Bronica SQAi + 50mm
Highlight = 14
Shadow = 8
Midpoint = 10
Filters : None
Final LV=10
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The Sutro Baths were a large, privately owned swimming pool complex in San Francisco, California, built in the late 19th century. The building housing the baths burned down in 1966 and was abandoned.
A scene from a 1958 film shot at Sutro Baths
The above image was taken on Sunday 1st June 2014 at Victoria Baths, Manchester.
This was my first time at Victoria Baths and during this visit I decided to shoot exclusively using a very wide angle lens (a 12mm Sigma) and also use my usual HDR style.
For more information about Victoria Baths see the site:
#Manchester #Victoria #baths #hdr #sigma #12mm
Mývatn Nature Baths was quite nice. It is smaller than its southern cousin, Blue Lagoon; it did not seem quite as luxurious, it didn’t have Blue Lagoon's silica mud, and it had a lot of dead midges in the water (not surprising), but it was still nice and definitely worth a visit.
My photos from the water itself aren't that great, unfortunately, as the battery on my waterproof camera died within days of my arrival in Iceland and I hadn't packed its charger, so I had to rely on the phone in its waterproof pouch. The outside gloom didn't help, either.
Mývatn Nature Baths was quite nice. It is smaller than its southern cousin, Blue Lagoon; it did not seem quite as luxurious, it didn’t have Blue Lagoon's silica mud, and it had a lot of dead midges in the water (not surprising), but it was still nice and definitely worth a visit.
My photos from the water itself aren't that great, unfortunately, as the battery on my waterproof camera died within days of my arrival in Iceland and I hadn't packed its charger, so I had to rely on the phone in its waterproof pouch. The outside gloom didn't help, either.
The above image was taken on Sunday 1st June 2014 at Victoria Baths, Manchester.
This was my first time at Victoria Baths and during this visit I decided to shoot exclusively using a very wide angle lens (a 12mm Sigma) and also use my usual HDR style.
For more information about Victoria Baths see the site:
#Manchester #Victoria #baths #hdr #sigma #12mm
The Melbourne City Baths circa 1914. Check it out now at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:City_Baths_Melbourne.jpg
If you'd like to find out more about the 1914 image, or download a hi-res copy, check out our catalogue: handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/84694
The above image was taken on Sunday 1st June 2014 at Victoria Baths, Manchester.
This was my first time at Victoria Baths and during this visit I decided to shoot exclusively using a very wide angle lens (a 12mm Sigma) and also use my usual HDR style.
For more information about Victoria Baths see the site:
#Manchester #Victoria #baths #hdr #sigma #12mm
I am on the beach-vacation-dream theme....
'The Baths' Virgin Gorda. With a little help from photoshop.
Of course, I didn't see the seagull flying past until I saw this picture on the big screen. You can see more photos and videos of the Roman Baths in Bath here.
If you visit Bath, be sure and sign up for one of the free docent led tours. Our guide was full of facts and fascinating stories.
The Celts called the place Sulis, after one of their gods. The Romans adopted the name calling it Aquae Sulis or Water of Sulis. The Romans likened Sulis to their own god Minerva and there are several representations of Sulis/Minerva, including a life-size bronze head with gold leaf in the Bath's museum.
A few years after the Roman Invasion of Britain in 43 AD, the waters were being channelled into baths, at first wooden later stone. Over the centuries they were added to and refurbished. Also customs changed necessitating new baths; until the Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century AD it was custom for men and women to bathe together naked. However, from Hadrian’s reign the sexes were separated.
Today, the bath has a green hue to it because of the sunshine encourages the growth of algae but in Roman times it had a great vaulted wooden and glass roof, which would have been the envy of the whole island if not empire.
There is the sacred spring and hot and cold baths plus similar baths for women. Much of the above ground stonework has been built upon through the ages but the floors, gutters and underground stonework remain Roman.
The baths became popular again in the 18th century when Bath regained popularity as a spa town and was significantly redeveloped in the Georgian style with streets and buildings such as the Royal Crescent . Jane Austen wrote several of her novels while staying in the area and there is a museum that looks at her works and the Georgian city.
The above image was taken on Sunday 1st June 2014 at Victoria Baths, Manchester.
This was my first time at Victoria Baths and during this visit I decided to shoot exclusively using a very wide angle lens (a 12mm Sigma) and also use my usual HDR style.
For more information about Victoria Baths see the site:
#Manchester #Victoria #baths #hdr #sigma #12mm
The Baths of Caracalla in Rome, Italy, were the second largest Roman public baths, built in Rome between AD 212 and 216, during the reign of the Emperor Caracalla.
Sutro Baths.
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Diana's Baths is a lovely series of cascades near North Conway, NH. A short walk with a gentle climb will take you to the top.
Winter view on Pałac Łazienkowski also . called the Palace on the Water - Warsaw's Royal Baths Park, Poland
Mývatn Nature Baths was quite nice. It is smaller than its southern cousin, Blue Lagoon; it did not seem quite as luxurious, it didn’t have Blue Lagoon's silica mud, and it had a lot of dead midges in the water (not surprising), but it was still nice and definitely worth a visit.
My photos from the water itself aren't that great, unfortunately, as the battery on my waterproof camera died within days of my arrival in Iceland and I hadn't packed its charger, so I had to rely on the phone in its waterproof pouch. The outside gloom didn't help, either.
Ansley Hall Colliery opened in 1878 and soon after the Ansley Hall Coal & Iron Co. Ltd was founded. The pit closed in 1959 and since then the pithead baths buildings have been in industrial use. This is one of the entrances to this 1930s building.
Mývatn Nature Baths was quite nice. It is smaller than its southern cousin, Blue Lagoon; it did not seem quite as luxurious, it didn’t have Blue Lagoon's silica mud, and it had a lot of dead midges in the water (not surprising), but it was still nice and definitely worth a visit.
My photos from the water itself aren't that great, unfortunately, as the battery on my waterproof camera died within days of my arrival in Iceland and I hadn't packed its charger, so I had to rely on the phone in its waterproof pouch. The outside gloom didn't help, either.
Derby Baths, Blackpool opened in 1939 just before the start of the second World War. It was located on the Promenade at the junction with Warley Road. It cost £270,000 to build.
The baths was frequently referred to as the Wembley of Swimming. The National Centralised Swimming and Diving Championships were held there from 1953 through the 1950's and 1960's and many events were televised. Swimming Galas for all the local schools were also held in July and November.
The pool was 50 metres in length with one, three, five and ten metre diving stages. In old money I remember the access steps to the pool being located at depths of 3ft 6ins", 5ft, 7ft and 16ft. On the south elevation of the building there was a large sun bathing terrace adjacent to the roof which was the length of the pool. There was also a large cafe at the east end of the seating area.
Sadly the baths were demolished amid much controversy in 1990. The site is now vacant and grassed over.
to be continued...........
The Melbourne City Baths were designed by J.J. Clarke and opened on 23 March 1904. Originally, there were separate men's and women's baths (and entrances to the building), but in 1947 mixed bathing was introduced and the popularity of the City Baths rose!
HDR photo taken on a Canon EOS 350D and merged using 3 exposures 2.0 EV apart.