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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
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.
Public baths at Pompeii located at the intersection of the Via Stabiana and the Via dell'Abbondanza.
On June 6th 1889 a fire broke out in Seattle that would leave 31 blocks of downtown reduced to ash. Whilst figuring out how to rebuild, planners insisted that new buildings be brick and that they be elevated one to two stories higher than the previous ground level. Store owners didn't want to wait for the ground level to be raised so they built their buildings on the old ground level even though the city was rebuilding sidewalks and such a story above them. Eventually the ground floors became basements which were later abandoned and condemned due to fear of plague from the enormous number of rats that had taken up residence. Now a large portion of Seattle rests on top of the old Seattle... which has been opened to tours since 1965.
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.
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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Having grown up at the seaside, John would have been most content wherever there was water and sunshine.
The location of this photograph is unknown, but the sign on the bathing club behind ends in "aeg".... was it taken in Germany, before the war?
Or is it...... South Africa?
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.
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.
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...
Well I wasn't exactly happy with my visit to this place last night. So I ended up looking back at the last time I visited Sutro Baths, when the tide was a bit lower. Last night the water was well above this rock.
San Francisco, CA
January 6, 2011
Canon 7D
Canon 17-40 f/4L
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Sulphur Bath Houses
The bath district is called Abanotubani, and the baths are much more luxurious than I imagined. There are large public baths and smaller private rooms you can hire for you and your family. Each of the baths have a separate changing room with comfortable sofas to relax after your dip in hot hydrosulfuric water. The temperature of the water ranges from 38°C to 45°C, and we had the latter. Just sit in such water - and all diseases will be gone.
Long time ago the people not only washed themselves there but also socialized sometimes until dawn; and the city matchmakers arranged presentation of marriageable girls on special days. In the baths they threw parties, made deals.
The Stabian Baths are an ancient Roman bathing complex in Pompeii, Italy, the oldest and the largest of the 5 public baths in the city. Their original construction dates back to ca. 125 BC, making them one of the oldest bathing complexes known from the ancient world. They were remodelled and enlarged many times up to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Baths Road, Hazelbrook.
Very pleased to see these frogs ... they usually stop croaking & disappear as soon as we get near😳
The second stop on our ''Highlights of Ephesus'' sightseeing excursion was the Ephesus Archaeological Site (Efes Ören Yeri). We entered through upper (south) gate, and began our sightseeing near the State Agora before proceeding along Curetes Street, which extends from Domitian Square to the Library of Celsus. Located on the north side of the lower end of Curetes Street were the Scholastica Baths (Skolastika Hamamı).
A few details on these ruins:
Scholastica Baths
The baths located at the lower (north) end of Curetes Street were originally built during the late 1st century or early 2nd century A.D., along with the nearby latrines and brothel. The baths were subsequently renovated in the 4th century by a wealthy Christian woman named Scholastica (or Scholastikia), and a statue of a (currently headless) seated woman honors this benefactor. (While a nearby informational placard refers to the building as the Varius Bath, most sources refer to this structure as the Scholastica Baths.) The baths, which were originally two or three stories tall, featured three main bathing rooms on the ground level -- a frigidarium (cold room), tepidarium (lukewarm room), and caldarium (hot room). Other areas of the baths included a resting room, libraries, and gymnasia.
Brief History of Ephesus:
Ephesus -- known as Ἔφεσος in Greek and Efes in Turkish -- was an ancient Greek city on the coast of Ionia. It was originally established in the 10th century B.C. by Attic and Ionian Greek colonists. Ephesus flourished after it came under Roman control in 129 B.C., during which time it is estimated to have had a population of 33,500 to 56,000 people. It was renowned for its splendid architecture, including the Temple of Artemis (circa 550 B.C.), which was recognized as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World until it was destroyed during a Goth raid in 268 A.D. During the Byzantine era (395-1308), Emperor Constantine I rebuilt much of the city and erected new public baths. The city was partially destroyed by an earthquake in 614 A.D. and was later sacked by Arabs during the mid 600s and early 700s. Its role as a commercial center declined as its harbor was slowly silted up by the Cayster River and the town lost its trade access to the Aegean Sea. Ephesus eventually fell under Turkish control; after a brief period of renewed prosperity and building during the early 14th century, the city was eventually abandoned by the 15th century. Excavations of the site were conducted by British archaeologists in the 1860s-70s, and later by German and Austrian architects in the 1890s. Today, the Austrian Archaeological Institute still continues ongoing conservation and restoration of Ephesus.
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.
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.