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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 took this image at Merewether Baths NSW, a couple of months ago and have decided to post it now; as the recent weather and work have not allowed me to venture out with the camera lately.
Hope you enjoy it.
Zero 2000, Fuji Velvia 50
The several indoor pools are of varying temperatures. Mom and I started out in a very warm pool, relaxing until we had a good sweat going, then I dipped in a cool bath and then we settled into a lukewarm bath. We were there early on a Monday morning, so the baths were not very busy. It was a few tourists, some pensioners, and us. An absolutely lovely start to our time in Budapest!
www.entoto-natural-park.org/2018/05/picnics-baths.html
Picnic care for the family.
The most beautiful and versatile nature and fascinating places which also are reachable within charming simplicity are often the very primary for family picnics but can often be challenging to accomplish within the convenience of the whole family's interest. Due to weather conditions, duties and family members' interest of comfort and alluring entertainment, will this require some very unique and beautiful characters of the picnic's requirements.
While this site (19) offers this required, convenient and exciting beauty and the fact that the tempests usually follow a bound rhythm, its experience in beautiful, cosy daily hours can be both an appealing and irresistible occurrence, provided a conscious behaviour to return the short distance to Entoto Kidane Mehret (1) in time before the next thunderstorm.
The most necessary for the Park's experience and picnics as well as candy shop (2) is across the bus stop from the community (1).
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During the regular rain season, it,s therefore appropriate to enjoy the pleasant and sunny day hours by enjoying the beautifully undulated promenade within a delightful valley and its enchantingly sculptural glen. To reach the site of the Italian built spring water facility (19) is within these requirements and therefore an excellent choice for just the most of activities and nature interest. Entoto Kidane Mehret's inhabitants are bringing their household water from this source, and therefore, the company is apparent by playing children and people who are fetching quantities of water to their homes.
. . During the occupation, the Italians established a big reservoir to provide the capital with water. Nowadays, this mountain reservoir (underground water technology) has lost some of its importance in favour of bigger catchment dams.
. near Entoto Kidane Mehret Church, beautiful scenery with a brook passing by. This brook (35) is in many ways characterizing the views to the dramatic landscape and cliff formations of the uphill trails and is an excellent assistant for orientation for the most hiking paths up to the high plateau.
The bridge crossing and its gully (22)
The valley of Entoto Kidane Mehret (1) constitutes the bridge crossing just some steps downhill of the sanctuary (32) and further invites a gentle walk to the place for family picnic and games at the Italian reservoir (19), located just to the right by a gentle undulated and charmingly curved path. The bridge crossing here (22) is also the natural path for those who want a more dramatic hike towards the high plateau by first passing point (37) just a few steps upward on the left side.
The enchanting valley of Entoto Kidane Mehret
Here are the full experiences of the ravine above this river in its captivating formations and complete contact. With this dramatically graceful and sculptural valley just below Entoto Kidane Mehret (1) this place constitutes a crossroad for many very completely enchanting choices. Within this open gully (22) of paths ways and bridge crossing, this enticingly cosy and inspiring ravine attracts for waiting in pleasure, to not risk losing its beauty but in spiritually sense to remain in harmony and fully ingulf its full beauty of sculptural shape and its feeling of just waiting for premonition adventures.
Clear and Pleasant Hiking Trails
This place forms the southern slope of Entoto's rising shoulder, and from this bridge crossing just below with its choices of crossroads with paths, the beginning is revealed of a real mountainside. With this, the first careful invitation to a flavour of wilderness is given but yet with a mysterious feeling of an unknown grandeur, still only waiting to be revealed, and this of nothing less than hidden places with an untouched mountain nature and its overwhelming grandiose impressions.
38. The Italian Fortification and its Bath
This Italian fortification (38), (historical remain) is very close to the actual path upwards and the just above lying farmhouse (39). Just here, little downhill the farmhouse area the pipeline connects to the reservoir and underground installation from Mussolini's troops. It is an interesting and short deviation from the path to visit this place and also beautiful.
*A Thorough Bath Examination is Required in the Italian fortification
While this is an old Italian fortification *(38),* all kinds of bath demand first to be preceded by a must include thorough bottom and wall examination to ensure regarding the safety conditions of the reservoir where both larger stones and iron objects could pose a severe injury hazard.
The picnic place from the era of dreams
From this high viewpoint (16) provides resting places for picnics in social tranquillity and contemplation about the unique nature, which is facilitated quickly by the high point of view, even over the mist-veiled Capital far below the southern slopes. Much closer the farmhouse is reminded and not far below even the chanting walls of Entoto Kidane Mehret Church (32).
14. A Great Wildlife View with the meandering streams
This plateau just above Bees' Cliff is a magnificently beautiful place with a great panorama view over the stream and many characters in the landscape. When the scene turns south, the abyss Bees' Cliff (14), the ravine is very close, where the river's further gorge meandering (35) becomes intuitively felt through the profound cooling airflow rising from the unknown abyss below the field of view.
The Paths To Bees' Cliff Natural Pools
The different choice of ways to these natural pools just above Bees' Cliff (14) follows those previously described from point (37). Thus, there are several very different of paths choices just uphill from point (38) but also becomes enriched by a more thorough, independent, acquaintance with the full south-eastern to north-western eroded soil road (41) located just above points (14 - 16).
A Turmoil of Chaos in Waterfall and Thunder
However, the plateau location is high above any instant protection by the community's facilities of taxis, bus station and shops from the quaint ledge town (1) and Entoto Kidane Mehret Church (32). Due to this harsh reality, some reservations are required for the season time when this high plateau is appropriate for visits as well as when the site needs extra caution.
Observe, One Heavy Rain Season Every Year
There are two rainy seasons per year, the small rain season from March to May and the significant rains from July to September. The highest rainfall intensity occurs in July and August (Demissew 1988).
During the relatively long rainy season, this place may appear scary, as the water flows are high and intertwined with rapidly sudden thunderstorms where only a powerful terrain vehicle would give protection.
Some Mornings Hours of Wonderful Respite
While this site offers an exhilarating beauty and the fact that the storms usually follow a bound rhythm, its experience in beautiful, cosy daily hours can be both an exciting and irresistible occurrence, provided a conscious behaviour to return in time before the next thunderstorm.
A Time of Fragrance, Harmony and Beauty
At the end of the rain season in September - October, the high plateau turns into a place of deep attraction where streams and waterfall begin to stabilise, and in October - November, a gentle, romantic flow of ideal conditions becomes evident.
ARKIV 060202 - Men sitting around the pool. Arasan Baths -a large sauna complex with Finnish, Russian and Turkish baths with seperate sides for men and women as well as private saunas.
ALMATY, KAZAKSTAN, KAZAKHSTAN
Foto: Christopher Herwig - Kod 9266
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From a series of photographs taken by Hastings Library local studies team in January 2014.
Part of Hastings Library’s local studies collection.
For more information or to obtain a print, please contact East Sussex Libraries:library.enquiries@eastsussex.gov.uk
ARKIV 060202 -Colored glass at the entrance to the bath. Arasan Baths -a large sauna complex with Finnish, Russian and Turkish baths with seperate sides for men and women as well as private saunas.
ALMATY, KAZAKSTAN, KAZAKHSTAN
Foto: Christopher Herwig - Kod 9266
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New shots of Bournville Baths. Zoom in's this time (had a compact camera 2 and a half years ago).
swimming baths near the Cadbury's factory
When the Cadbury family moved there factory from the City Centre to 4 miles outside the city in 1878, they built a factory and an entire village. By 1904 they built these public baths, right next to the factory site.
Windows at the front of the Baths.
Bournville Baths A 1904 D sign below the window.
Grade II listed building
Description
BOURNVILLE LANE
1.
5104
Bournville B30
Bournville Baths
SP 0481 SE 56/2 19.12.80
II
2.
1902-4, by G H Lewin. Brick with stone dressings ; tiled roof. A main hall
with a lower wing on the left and a projecting clock tower on the right.
To the road a single-storeyed segment-headed bay with square mullioned and
transomed window with chequerwork in the tympanum, then a gabled bay with
polygonal louvred turret at the apex and, below that, a large 5-light arched
window with 3 transoms. Below the window a large panel with the name and
date of the building amid luxuriant foliage sculptured by Benjamin Creswick.
The square tower with tall battered buttresses and almost equally tall 2-light
windows with 3 transoms. Above this an octagonal turret with angle buttresses
and a little dome surmounted by a pretty metal weathervane. The left hand
return with 5 gabled bays each with a 5-light arched and transomed window.
Listing NGR: SP0483981057
The Manly Swimming Baths were opened in 1926, demolished and reconstructed in 1949-50, and closed permanently in 1976.
There is more about their history here: manlylocalstudies.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/manly-swimming-... and photos of the Baths in use here: www.aurorashore.com.au/montage/Manly/Gallery.aspx?keyword...
After John's death, my cousin Dorothy Maud, to whom he had been devoted, came into possession of his effects.
Among them was a bill of sale from a wholesale grocer's in Halifax, Nova Scotia for such items as tea, sugar, marmalade - luxuries during the war, but essential to a British table such as grandmother's.
There also was a packet of letters, and a diary.
The letters were sent to and from an Army officer serving in South Africa whose name appears only with his first initials; he in turn addressed his letters to "Jean Barron" and all were exchanged via Uncle John's London solicitor, who he used as mailing address.
As John was nominally a Frenchman, the name Jean - French for John - would have aroused no interest at home... but if opened (as they could have been at any time) by a British military censor, they would more likely have been interpreted as having come from a young woman named Jean.
The letters are interesting for being very unspecific as to the person being written to, or what plans or experiences the writer and sender share. Nowhere for example does either one say anything like, "I can't wait to go dancing with you again" or "I think of you in that pretty pink hat". Instead, they talk only of the pain of separation and their intense longing to be reunited.
And having written yearning letters when I thought I had found the one and only other person in the world I could love and would love me, the tone of their correspondence is very familiar. I can easily imagine how it must have felt for John, sleeping in cramped cold quarters on a tinpot merchant steamer, to remember the beautiful times spent wrapped in his lover's arms when they were together in Alexandria, Egypt... no doubt they found some secluded corner of the seafront where they could lie together in the sun and say everything they wanted to say with no fear of being overheard.
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
Manchester Victoria Baths, Females Pool
Segregation in swimming and bathing both by gender and by class was normal procedure at the beginning of the twentieth century. Where an establishment had only one or two pools, segregation would take place by giving each class of user a different day of the week. At Victoria Baths, there were three separate entrances, separate swimming pools and separate wash baths for Males 1st Class, Males 2nd Class and Females.
Each of the three pools at Victoria Baths was Olympic length (25 yards) but they differed in width; the Females pool, at 30 feet, being the narrowest.
The water for Victoria Baths came from a well which was specially sunk for the establishment. It has been said that the water was first used to fill the Males 1st Class pool, then it was returned to the water tanks, filtered, aerated, re-heated and used again in the Males 2nd Class pool before being recycled again and used in the Females pool! Certainly there was equipment which enabled water to be pumped between the three pools and the water tanks situated on top of the boiler house and filter room
Whether or not this story is true, having the smallest pool, and 3rd-hand water did not prevent swimming from becoming a popular activity for women and girls in the early part of the 20th century.
Mixed bathing was introduced with great caution in 1914 and by the 1920s mixed bathing sessions were held every Sunday morning enabling families to swim together for the first time
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 Buckhorn Baths Motel located on Main Street in Mesa, Arizona. The motel is currently closed and is a threatened structure.
The motel was built in 1939 and became quite famous for its hot mineral baths. The motel was visited by many celebrities and professional baseball players.
A pair of cottages.
Bramley Baths is the only remaining Edwardian bath-house in Leeds and is Grade II listed. It first opened as a pool and public bath-house in 1904, enabling local residents to wash, swim and use the Russian Steam Baths, fashionable with the Edwardians as a healthy pastime. Originally a steel foundry, the building’s chimney can be seen from across Leeds.
In 2011 Leeds City Council, under budgetary pressures, invited expressions of interest to take over management of Bramley Baths. A group of residents and supportive local organisations worked together to write a business plan, raise funds and transfer Bramley Baths to the community. Bramley Baths became a not-for-profit, community-led, professionally-run enterprise and began a new era on 1st January 2013.
Since 2013 a professional staff team backed by many supporters and volunteers, have turned around the fortunes of this much-loved community space. In 2015, the Baths worked with Yorkshire Life Aquatic and Leeds College of Art to produce a performance underpinned by real memories of time spent there, and the relationship people have with Bramley Baths. An archive containing the memories supplied during this project is available to browse and enjoy. Dip into the Bramley Memory Aquarium to hear some wonderful memories and find out why people in West Leeds are so well connected to this building and what it represents...
There is a street in Denver ~ Colfax Avenue ~ that is the longest continuous commercial street in the United States. It's also said to be the "Gateway to the Rockies" as it takes you from the plains to the mountains.
Bathhouses seem to belong in the past where the sexes are separated and steamed appropriately. But somewhere in Denver, underneath the streets and between the buildings, lies this bathhouse. The neon lights at night give it a bit of a creepy feel, don't you think??
The Hyman family opened the Lake Steam Baths in 1927. Today, the Lake Steam Baths is the oldest business on West Colfax. People still go there and enjoy the steam baths today.
This building on East India Dock Road, in Poplar, in east London, is the home of Poplar Public Baths, an Art Deco triumph, rebuilt in 1933 on the site of a Victorian bathhouse that opened in 1852. The baths had two pools, and, as Derelict London explains, "the larger pool, known as East India Hall, was floored over and used as a theatre (capacity 1,400), dance hall, exhibition room and sports hall especially for boxing and wrestling programmes." The baths closed in 1988, and, as the website explains, they "remain empty, home to pigeons and drug addicts and seen very much as potentially a very valuable Poplar resource, which is being watched very carefully by people living on either side of the A13." The baths became a grade II listed building in January 2001.
In the summer of 2012 -- London's Olympic Summer -- the baths briefly reopened for an art exhibition, instigated by the arts organisation Create, part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, who "commissioned Frieze to take on its first ever project outside the annual art fair in Regent's Park for the Frieze Projects East, a series of six playful public artworks -- some permanent, some temporary -- specially commissioned for the six host boroughs," as Tower Hamlets website explained. In the baths, the artists Anthea Hamilton and Nicholas Byrne installed a number of large, brightly coloured inflatable sculptures.
The statue outside the baths is of Richard Green (1803-1863), a shipbuilder, born in Blackwell, and a well-known philanthropist in east London, portrayed in the statue with his dog. As the Dictionary of National Biography (1885-1900) explained, "He was the principal supporter of schools at Poplar, at which two thousand children were taught and partly clothed. To the Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum, the Dreadnought Hospital, the Poplar Hospital, and many other charities he was a great benefactor."
Photo taken on July 25, 2012, after I had cycled from Whitechapel, through Mile End and Bow to Stratford, and had then cycled around the perimeter of the Olympic Park, just two days before the Olympic Games began.
For the baths, see: www.derelictlondon.com/public-pools-and-baths.html
For their listing, see: www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-486844-poplar-baths-g...
For the art show, see: www.towerhamletsarts.org.uk/?cid=47514
For more on Andy Worthington, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/
For my most interesting photos, see: www.flickriver.com/photos/andyworthington/popular-interes...
UPDATE JUNE 2017: I've just set up a Facebook page, 'The State of London', featuring, every day, a photo of London from my five years of cycling around and taking photos of the capital. Please join me! www.facebook.com/thestateoflondon/
Bramley Baths is the only remaining Edwardian bath-house in Leeds and is Grade II listed. It first opened as a pool and public bath-house in 1904, enabling local residents to wash, swim and use the Russian Steam Baths, fashionable with the Edwardians as a healthy pastime. Originally a steel foundry, the building’s chimney can be seen from across Leeds.
In 2011 Leeds City Council, under budgetary pressures, invited expressions of interest to take over management of Bramley Baths. A group of residents and supportive local organisations worked together to write a business plan, raise funds and transfer Bramley Baths to the community. Bramley Baths became a not-for-profit, community-led, professionally-run enterprise and began a new era on 1st January 2013.
Since 2013 a professional staff team backed by many supporters and volunteers, have turned around the fortunes of this much-loved community space. In 2015, the Baths worked with Yorkshire Life Aquatic and Leeds College of Art to produce a performance underpinned by real memories of time spent there, and the relationship people have with Bramley Baths. An archive containing the memories supplied during this project is available to browse and enjoy. Dip into the Bramley Memory Aquarium to hear some wonderful memories and find out why people in West Leeds are so well connected to this building and what it represents...
The Suburban Baths were built around the end of the 1st century BC against the city walls north of the Porta Marina. They served as a public bath house to the residents of Pompeii They were originally discovered in 1958 and have since been excavated and restored. Excavation of the Suburban Baths have given historians a glimpse into an aspect of the social and cultural workings of Roman life in Pompeii.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suburban_Baths_%28Pompeii%29
sites.google.com/site/ad79eruption/pompeii/public-buildin...
From a series of photographs taken by Hastings Library local studies team in January 2014.
Part of Hastings Library’s local studies collection.
For more information or to obtain a print, please contact East Sussex Libraries:library.enquiries@eastsussex.gov.uk
The historic Turkish Baths have been cleared out and will be completely redone. Copyright - Ruth Corney and Rowan Arts.
The Ceremonial Baths and Bathhouse of Emperor Fasiledes, during the Timkat (Epiphany) celebrations.
The Emperor Fasiledes had the nearby river temporarily diverted into the these large baths to fill them so that he could swim and bathe. In the middle of the baths is a small castle shown here which served as a type of hamam. Today the baths are filled once a year using the same method for the celebration of Timkat (Epiphany) which in the Orthodox church marks the baptism of Christ by John the Baptist.
Somewhat cliche image taken a couple of weeks ago during a sunrise visit to Merewether with fellow Newcastle Sundance group memebers.
The domed building is the pumphouse for the baths.
** Please view Large on Black **
The Buckhorn Baths Motel. Abandoned and awaiting its fate. A famous spot in The Valley from the 1930s. There is hope to finding funds to restore it as a historical landmark.
Revisiting the TOU/Five Star MC 28mm f/2.8 wide angle. Took it along during Magic Hour, following another Monsoon storm.
Source: scan of the original item.
Album: COR01.
Date: 1920s?
Repository: From the collection of Paul Corengia.
Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
This is the former slipper baths area - this photo shows the void in the ceiling that previously contained services for the baths. Copyright - Wates
Avenue des Gobelins. I cannot find any information or history on this, but I can only assume that, at one time, there were Russian baths in this building.
One of the floor mosaics in the Terme Femminili in Herculaneum
The Terme del Foro (Forum Baths) in Herculaneum contains sections for both men and women.
The Terme Femminili (women's baths) are the better preserved of the two, with well preserved mosaic floors.
The Terme del Foro (Forum Baths) in Herculaneum contains sections for both men and women.
The Terme Femminili (women's baths) are the better preserved of the two, with well preserved mosaic floors.
Herculaneum (Ercolano) was the second town destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD. Not as famous as its near-neighbour Pompeii, the site is much smaller and more compact, but in parts better preserved by the ash and mud which swamped it.
The site is located just eight miles from Naples and is almost lost amid the run-down modern residential neighbourhood in which it is located. An exclusive residential settlement at the time of the eruption, the site contains many brilliantly preserved homes, shops and baths which were used by the approximate 5,000 residents.
ARKIV 060202 - Men sitting around the pool. Arasan Baths -a large sauna complex with Finnish, Russian and Turkish baths with seperate sides for men and women as well as private saunas.
ALMATY, KAZAKSTAN, KAZAKHSTAN
Foto: Christopher Herwig - Kod 9266
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From the left is the Pearl Mosque, the Hammams (Baths) and the Hall of Private Audience.
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The largest of Old Delhi's monuments is Lal Quila or Red Fort whose thick red sandstone walls, bulging with turrets and bastions, have withstood the vagaries of time and nature.
Mughal Emperor Shahjahan started construction of the massive fort in 1638 and work was completed in 1648. The fort contains all the expected trappings of the centre of Mughal government: halls of public and private audience, domed and arched marble palaces, plush private apartments, a mosque and elaborately designed gardens. Even today, the fort remains an impressive testimony to Mughal grandeur, despite being attacked by the Persian Emperor Nadir Shah in 1739 and by the British soldiers during the war of independence in 1857. Delhi, India