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A GoPro shot of the Myvatn Nature Baths, also known as the "Blue Lagoon of the North". A geothermally heated natural pool - just the right spot to soak in a break from exploring Northern Iceland.
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.
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side of front block at victoria baths
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.
the perfect friday afternoon! we spent hours here, going from the outdoor pools, to the indoor 'medicine baths', to hot tubs, mineral baths, and the 100 degree sauna with a 16 degree pool to jump into after. so great.
The largest thermal baths in Europe, with indoor and outdoor baths of every variety, saunas, massage parlours, and maze-like changing rooms (but a very small toilet).
A doorway in the frigidarium of the Central Baths, Pompeii. The brickwork, that includes a "flat arch" over the doorway and a relieving arch built into the wall above, reflects building practices of the mid-first century CE, and appropriately so, as this Bath building is considered part of Pompeii's reconstruction program after the earthquake of 62 CE.
In 2013 the Central Baths were accessible for a visit by permission from the Soprintendenza.
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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...
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
Absolutely the most splendid ocean pool I've ever seen. Opened in 1913, and a wonderful Art Deco bathing pavilion opened in 1922, and remodeled by architects Pitt and Merewether in 1928. 100 yards X 50 yards. (I thought it seemed big when I was swimming there)
www.nswoceanbaths.info/pools/b008.htm
The Baths have quite a history: hit by a shell from a Japanese sub in 1942, a cyclonic storm produced mountainous seas that washed part of the wooden catwalk separating the two pools in the baths up onto Tramway Park in the 1970s, The Newcastle earthquake in 1989 caused serious damage to the Baths, In 1967, seven-metre seas pounded the baths, and at the moment the Art Deco pavilion is being restored.
Why Oh Why Oh Why!!!! lol
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
Stirchley Baths, Birmingham
Visited here back in July last year, it was a long time coming considering a freind of mine lives just around the corner and we had been wanting to get in there for years! Definatly one of the best bath houses ive had the pleasure of visiting.
This building is one of only two last remaining landmark structures left from my childhood, the other being the Bellgrove hotel on this part of the Gallowgate. I recall the days in the 1950s-60s when as a kid we could hire a towel and swimming pants as we entered the baths. Our tenement house never had a bathroom so we would go and use the metal baths once a week, and pushing Mum's washing too the steamie, never the good old days just memories...lol
emergency alarm, on cubicles surrounding ladies pool, victoria baths, manchester
taken with olympus OM2n with 24MM zuiko lens on konica centuria 1600 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.
Plaque on the end wall of the former baths at Gibfield Colliery. Coal owners Fletcher Burrows & Co Ltd erected the first purpose built colliery bath house in Britain at Gibfield Colliery in 1913 after a trial of an adapted building at their Howe Bridge Colliery. The colliery closed in 1963 but the building survives as a car repair and maintenance garage.
Olympic pool at City Baths King William Road, Adelaide taken on the afternoon of opening day January 13th, 1940 - Reference HP1521
Public baths at Pompeii located at the intersection of the Via Stabiana and the Via dell'Abbondanza.
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 (Terme Suburbane) in Herculaneum, seen from down on the old sea front.
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.
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...
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.
The Columbus Smith Estate
1177 Shard Villa Rd, West Salisbury, VT • Cut stone, 2-1/2 story. French Second Empire style.
Home grown attorney Columbus Smith’s first great success was started in 1844, on behalf of the descendants of Frances Mary Shard, who died in England in 1819. His eventual win in 1858, after 14 years of research, multiple trips to England, legal filings, appearances & multiple appeals made him one of the richest men in Vermont. He would soon build and name his own estate after a women he never met.
He moved his ancestral home a bit to the north, and assembled an amazing team to build his mansion and grounds, from 1872-74: [1] the plan was based on “Design No. 19", in his copy of the 1869 pattern book “National Architect” by George E. Woodward; [2] the first plans were drawn by Warren Thayer, architect, Burlington, VT, and turned over to: [3] George & Clinton Smith (father & son) to detail the plans inside and out, and be the builders (at the time called “joiners”); [4] Robert Morris Copeland, Boston, MA (landscape architect - then called “landscape gardener”); and [5] in 1886-87, he brought Italian Muralist Sylvio Pezzoli to live in the Estate, while painting walls, ceilings, floors. screens and portraits.
Columbus's widow, Harriet, upon her death in 1919, willed the estate and fortune to become that we call today an Elder Care Home. A 2-1/2 story brick addition, with 14 rooms with private baths opened in 1922.
☞ The Estate has been on the National Register of Historic Places (#89001789), since 1989.
☞ This structure is listed on the Vermont State Register of Historic Places. Source: Data excerpts from "The Historic Architecture of Addison County: including a listing of the Vermont State Register of Historic Places"; Vermont Division of Historic Preservation; Curtis B. Johnson, Editor; © 1992.
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We visited the Roman Baths in Bath - amazing place. We last visited in 1998 and it was good to revisit such a place full of history.
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Sutro Baths San Francisco. In 1964 developers planned to replace the baths with a high-rise apartment complex and began demolition. Later, in 1966 a fire destroyed everything. What's left is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area since 1973.
The Govanhill Baths, closed in 2001 amidst outcry from the local and wider communities, has lain empty since.
The Govanhill Baths Community Trust, formed from a vibrant and determined grassroots campaign to save the Baths, is raising funds to renovate the Baths as a Health and Wellbeing Centre, run by the community for the community. We have recently been granted planning permission for the renovations.
The Trust's activities extend into many areas, including an exciting and developing programme of the arts. For further information, please visit the website www.govanhillbaths.com or get in touch at info@govanhillbaths.com
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...