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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 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...
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
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
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AUSTINMER - Sunrise over the Tasman Sea with the Austinmer Ocean Pools
The Austinmer Rock Pool, also known as ‘ocean pools’ or ‘ocean baths’, was first built in the early 1910s and then rebuilt or replaced several times at various locations along Austinmer Beach. You can still see the remains of the Children’s Bathing Pool at the foot of the steep cliff of Brickyard Point.
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...
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...
The historic Turkish Baths have been cleared out and will be completely redone. Copyright - Ruth Corney and Rowan Arts.
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 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.
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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.
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.
Older Roman-Russian baths built on top of old roman ruins of a bath complex built for roman soliders. One goes nude... Best parts; the steam sauna with natural spring water heated therefore you could smell the minerals in the steam and the soap and brush scrub down. You lay on a heated marble "slab" and the attendant soaped you down and then gave you a 'good' scrub from neck to toe.
Big Pit National Coal Museum Wales
Pit Head Baths Exhibition - photographs from the Big Pit, Pontypool South Wales (NP4 9XP).
"Big Pit National Coal Museum is an industrial heritage museum in Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales. A working coal mine from 1880 to 1980, it was opened to the public in 1983 under the auspices of the National Museum of Wales." (From the Pig Pit website).
More general photographs at www.flickr.com/photos/staneastwood/albums
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
COPYRIGHT PRESSENS BILD
The Sutro Baths were a large, privately owned swimming pool complex near Seal Rock in San Francisco, California, built in the late 19th century. The facility was financially unprofitable and is now in ruins. Lands around the site have been integrated into the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
On March 14, 1896, the Sutro Baths were opened to the public as the world's largest indoor swimming pool establishment. The baths were built on the western side of San Francisco by wealthy entrepreneur and former mayor of San Francisco (1894–1896) Adolph Sutro.
The structure filled a small beach inlet below the Cliff House, also owned by Adolph Sutro at the time. Both the Cliff House and the former baths site are now a part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, operated by the United States National Park Service. The baths struggled for years, mostly due to the very high operating and maintenance costs. Shortly after closing, a fire in 1966 destroyed the building while it was in the process of being demolished. All that remains of the site are concrete walls, blocked off stairs and passageways, and a tunnel with a deep crevice in the middle. - source Wikipedia
Freestyle/Arista EDU Ultra 100 in Adox Adonal 1+50 - 7 minutes at 20°C/68.0°F developed in Paterson Tank with MOD54. FilmDev recipe No.9505
Scanned with Epson Perfection V700 Photo using SilverFast 8.0
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...
ARKIV 060202 - Taps for water in the washing room. 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
COPYRIGHT PRESSENS BILD
Somehow I had convinced myself that this building was demolished about 40 years ago, so it gave me quite a funny turn to come around the corner the other day and find it still standing. It was almost as though I'd walked into the Centre, say, and found the CWS building still standing there, all solid bricks and stone.
The former public baths in Jacob's Wells Road were designed by the city surveyor, Josiah Thomas. They went up in 1887, but were designed six years earlier. The London School Board style of E. R. Robson has been remarked as an influence. Cattybrook brick I suppose, with stone dressings and a riot of enjoyably inconsistent pepperpot domes, segmental pediments and assorted twiddly bits. The roof, where it steps up, is glazed for top light. The Valerian, Ragwort and Buddleia sprouting from the upper parts is very destructive of course, but it is a romantic effect which I like to see. One thinks of a ruined temple, being gradually drowned in jungle vegetation.
So which was the prominent building in Jacob's Wells Road that was demolished? I have packed away my Winstones, so I can't look it up.
Here is a Wikipedia cut and paste.....An unusual geologic formation known as "The Baths" located on the southern end of the island makes Virgin Gorda one of the BVI's major tourist destinations. At The Baths, the beach shows evidence of the island's volcanic origins, as huge granite boulders lie in piles on the beach, forming scenic grottoes that are open to the sea.
Pithead Baths
From: Big Pit: National Coal Museum
Walking through the pithead baths at Big Pit: National Coal Museum today, it is difficult to imagine the great impact such buildings had on the lives of the miner and his family. Prior to the introduction of baths, the miners had no option but to travel home dirty and wash in a tin bath in front of the fire or outside in the 'bailey' (back yard). Not only did the miners’ wives have to constantly boil heavy tubs of water ready for the miner to take a bath, but the miners’ filthy clothes had to be washed as well - a continuous back breaking chore for the women of the house.
This image forms part of the monthly 'Curators Choice' series from Rhagor, the collections based website from Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales.
What will your favourite item be?
The Victoria Baths, near Longsight in Manchester, were designed as a prestigious baths complex by Manchester's first City Architect, Henry Price, and opened by Manchester Corporation in 1906. In their design and construction no expense was spared. The facade has multi-coloured brickwork and teracotta decoration, the main interior public spaces are clad in glazed tiles from floor to ceiling and most of the many windows have decorative stained glass.
For 86 years the Victoria Baths provided both essential and leisure facilities. Private baths and a laundry were housed there along with three swimming pools and the Turkish Baths. The main swimming pool was floored over in the winter months to hold dances. In 1952 the Victoria Baths installed the first public Aeratone (jacuzzi) in the country.
The Victoria Baths was closed in 1993. The building is now in very poor repair and yet remarkably intact with most of the stained glass and original tiling remaining. the Victoria Baths is listed grade II* on the List of Buildings of Architectural and Historic Interest.
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.
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
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...
ARKIV 060202 -Elaborate entrance hall way. 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
COPYRIGHT PRESSENS BILD
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 Roman Baths themselves are below the modern street level. There are four main features: the Sacred Spring, the Roman Temple, the Roman Bath House and the Museum holding finds from Roman Bath. The buildings above street level date from the 19th century.
The first shrine at the site of the hot springs was built by Celts, and was dedicated to the goddess Sulis, whom the Romans identified with Minerva.
The name Sulis continued to be used after the Roman invasion, leading to the town's Roman name of Aquae Sulis (literally, "the waters of Sulis"). The temple was constructed in 60-70 AD and the bathing complex was gradually built up over the next 300 years. During the Roman occupation of Britain, and possibly on the instructions of Emperor Claudius,] engineers drove oak piles to provide a stable foundation into the mud and surrounded the spring with an irregular stone chamber lined with lead. In the second century it was enclosed within a wooden barrel-vaulted building, and included the caldarium (hot bath), tepidarium (warm bath), and frigidarium (cold bath). After the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the first decade of the fifth century, these fell into disrepair and were eventually lost due to silting up, and flooding.
The baths have been modified on several occasions, including the 12th century when John of Tours built a curative bath over the King's Spring reservoir and the 16th century when the city corporation built a new bath (Queen's Bath) to the south of the Spring. The spring is now housed in eighteenth century buildings, designed by architects John Wood, the Elder and John Wood, the Younger, father and son. Visitors drank the waters in the Grand Pump Room, a neo-classical salon which remains in use, both for taking the waters and for social functions.
Credit to Wikipedia for this information.
If you can believe this, years later the place looks even more like a wreck. The owner are tax delinquents (for multiple years) and as such may lose their holds in the Village in a tax sale.
newcastle, australia
trip 35, lomography film, asa 100.
every man and his dog has taken a photo of either these baths or the ones at mereweather, half an hour walk south. i was determined never to take a picture here (well i probably have in a past life) why this time?
something just seemed right and impulsive.
the colours are ok, though, right?
i "got a heck of a lot to learn about remaining taciturn"