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boiler house and chimney at the rear of victoria baths in manchester. the scaffolding is for the repair of the 1st class male pool roof
taken with olympus OM2n with 24MM zuiko lens on kodak portra 160 film
Victoria Baths is one of 5 Grade II* listed public baths in the country. Described by the Manchester Guardian at the time of its opening as 'probably the most splendid bathing institution in the country'. The Lord Mayor at the time described it as a water palace. Designed by T de Courcy Meade, Arthur Davies and Henry Price it opened in September 1906 at a cost of £59,939. The building finally closed in 1993 and the Victoria Baths Trust formed to ensure the building survived with the goal of restoring and reopening it.
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Image Title: Sutro Baths Mist
Image Description: The Sutro Baths area just after sundown.
Location: Sutro Baths ruins, San Francisco, CA
Photographic Gear: Canon
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Granite boulders at the Baths National Parks, Virgin Gorda; which were created by volcanic activity and years of erosion.
These thermal baths, housed in a Neo-Baroque building, are in the Varosliget (City Park) and it is the largest spa complex in Europe. They are also the hottest in Budapest. We didn't go for a dip!
Once Poplar Baths was thriving. People would come to swim, bathe and also to dance!!
It opened in 1852 and was rebuilt in 1933. The East India Hall could have a tempoary floor put down and would be used as a theatre, with space for 1,400 people, or a dance hall, an exhibition room or a sports hall!
During its first four years the baths would attract an average of almost 273,000 users every year, as well as people who attended dancing and the other events in the East India Hall.
After World War II there was much less usage, and it is recorded that between 1954 and 1959 they were used by an average of only 225,700 bathers each year. Dancing became less popular, and East India Hall was converted with more of a sports theme. Five-a-side football, indoor bowls and basketball were introduced. However, in 1980 this stopped as it was felt that enough accomodation was provided in other buildings for these activities.
The decline in usage continued, and between 1966 and 1970 the annual average fell again to 209,324 bathers, however worse was to come when between 1980 and 1984 the figure was just 106,431.
The Slipper Baths (designed to ensure you were clean before swimming) usage also dropped. Those on the second floor were removed, due to their condition, and the space turned into a music studio. Things really started to go wrong in 1986, when the large pool had to be closed as work was needed on the roof. The large pool would never reopen and final closure would come in 1988. After closing as a public baths it was briefly used by the London Docklands Development Corporation as a training centre.
The building received Grade II listing in 2001, and there is
a proposal to re-open the baths. The large pool has however been concreted in.
asset is destroyed and replaced by a temporary car park until the late 1990s when the Imax was built.The baths opened in 1937 at a cost of £80,000 , the pool was 100 feet by 35 feet and boasted olympic diving boards also there were turkish and medicated baths under the main pool. and a sun terrace on top.
Morden Baths in Morden Park. Famous recently for Little Britain's Vicky Pollard sketch with her smoking in the shallow end. Good sized pool with diving boards
The remains of the olds baths at Giles Baths and Gym, Coogee. Still a beautiful spot to swim - perhaps even more so now that it's in a bit of disarray.
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
front block of victoria baths manchester
taken with olympus OM2n with 24MM zuiko lens on kodak portra 160 film
Victoria Baths is one of 5 Grade II* listed public baths in the country. Described by the Manchester Guardian at the time of its opening as 'probably the most splendid bathing institution in the country'. The Lord Mayor at the time described it as a water palace. Designed by T de Courcy Meade, Arthur Davies and Henry Price it opened in September 1906 at a cost of £59,939. The building finally closed in 1993 and the Victoria Baths Trust formed to ensure the building survived with the goal of restoring and reopening it.
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...
Next to Blackrock dart station, these old public baths and diving board can make for nice photos. Sad to see that places like this were not re-opened during boom times.
Eltham Pool/ Baths in Eltham Hill, now closed. There are plans to demolish this building and erect another Concrete and Glass box. Demolition has started, www.flickr.com/photos/50780708@N02/5863212590/
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Stonetown, Zanzibar, Tansania
Mtoni Palace & Persian Baths
Beit el Mtoni literally means The Palace by the stream. The palace owes this name to its beautiful location on the western shore of Zanzibar. It is one of the oldest buildings of Zanzibar and it was the largest palace on the island during the reign of Sultan Sayyid Said, who moved the capital of his Omani empire form Muscat to Zanzibar during the first half of the 19th century. At that time, over a thousand people lived in the palace and its direct surroundings. But around the 1880s the palace was abandoned and fell into ruin. One of the most famous inhabitants of Zanzibar was Sayyida Salme. Beit el Mtoni is strongly connected with her story, since it is the place where she was born. Salme, one of the many daughters of Sultan Said, became world famous as Emily Ruete, the Arabian princess who fell in love with the German merchant Rudolph Heinrich Ruete. The couple eloped to Hamburg, which meant that Salme had to say farewell to Zanzibar. In her beautiful book Memoirs of an Arabian Princess Salme, or Emily as she was called later after being baptized a Christian, wrote down her memories of the bristling Mtoni Palace during her youth, and the decay she encountered many years later, when she returned to Zanzibar one last time.
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
The Baths of Diocletian in Rome were the grandest of the public baths. Diocletian's Baths, dedicated in 306, were the largest and most sumptuous of the imperial baths and remained in use until the aqueducts that fed them were cut by the Goths in 537. -wiki
The Baths of Diocletian at the Piazza Republica are pretty incredible. Remarkably for their time period, the inside of this place is 7 stories from floor to ceiling. This isn't a perfect stitch by any stretch of the imagination, but it was hand held, two rows, with a fisheye, so I'll take what I can get ;-)
The Baths Park, or Royal Baths (Polish: Park Łazienkowski, or Łazienki Królewskie) is the largest park in Warsaw, Poland, occupying 76 hectares of the city center. The park-and-palace complex lies in Warsaw's Downtown (Śródmieście), on Ujazdów Avenue (Aleje Ujazdowskie) on the "Royal Route" linking the Royal Castle with Wilanów palace to the south. North of the Baths Park (Park Łazienkowski), on the other side of Agrykola Street, stands Ujazdów Castle
Budapest's Szechenyi Bath and Spa was its first thermal baths on the Pest side. At the time, back in 1881, it was called "Artesian Bath", and was only a temporary establishment. In 1913, it was converted into a permanent bath, and received its present name and most parts of its pretty yellow building complex.
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.
Newcastle Baths, Newcastle, NSW
Mamiya RZ67
Sekor 110mm 2.8
Ektar 100
Scanned on v700
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Took a walk on a very hot day to Venus Baths in the Grampians today, only a kilometre each way but worth the walk and the sweat.
Once Poplar Baths was thriving. People would come to swim, bathe and also to dance!!
It opened in 1852 and was rebuilt in 1933. The East India Hall could have a tempoary floor put down and would be used as a theatre, with space for 1,400 people, or a dance hall, an exhibition room or a sports hall!
During its first four years the baths would attract an average of almost 273,000 users every year, as well as people who attended dancing and the other events in the East India Hall.
After World War II there was much less usage, and it is recorded that between 1954 and 1959 they were used by an average of only 225,700 bathers each year. Dancing became less popular, and East India Hall was converted with more of a sports theme. Five-a-side football, indoor bowls and basketball were introduced. However, in 1980 this stopped as it was felt that enough accomodation was provided in other buildings for these activities.
The decline in usage continued, and between 1966 and 1970 the annual average fell again to 209,324 bathers, however worse was to come when between 1980 and 1984 the figure was just 106,431.
The Slipper Baths (designed to ensure you were clean before swimming) usage also dropped. Those on the second floor were removed, due to their condition, and the space turned into a music studio. Things really started to go wrong in 1986, when the large pool had to be closed as work was needed on the roof. The large pool would never reopen and final closure would come in 1988. After closing as a public baths it was briefly used by the London Docklands Development Corporation as a training centre.
The building received Grade II listing in 2001, and there is
a proposal to re-open the baths. The large pool has however been concreted in.
asset is destroyed and replaced by a temporary car park until the late 1990s when the Imax was built.The baths opened in 1937 at a cost of £80,000 , the pool was 100 feet by 35 feet and boasted olympic diving boards also there were turkish and medicated baths under the main pool. and a sun terrace on top.