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Outside of the former Turkish baths (now Ciro's Pizza Pomodoro), 7-8 Bishopsgate Churchyard, London.
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
Swimmers acclimatise in ice baths at I&J in preparation for the Speedo Ice Swim Africa which will take place on 17th July in Nuwedam, Fraserburg in the Northern Cape, South Africa.
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.
The Hadrianic Baths
The baths were built in the early 2nd century AD and dedicated to the emperor Hadrian (ruled AD 117-138). They are located at the west end of the South Agora and consist of two main parts: a series of barrel-vaulted bathing chambers and a great colonnaded forecourt with grand marble architecture. The complex contains changing rooms for men and women, a cold room, lukewarm room, and hot room. The vaulted chambers are built of massive limestone blocks covered with marble revetment; the floors and pools are lined with marble, and the hot rooms have floors raised on hypocausts. The massive limestone walls have been standing since antiquity, and the inside of the chambers and the forecourt were excavated in 1904-5 and in the 1960s.
Aphrodisias, Turkey
An antique chest turns into a beautiful vanity piece in this renovated powder room. Faux finishing paint accents the marble floor and wall surround.
Hobart Tepid baths / DR Plaister Aquatic House. Now a derelict building since it’s closure in the 1990’s. Covered in graffiti and possible used as a shelter for the homeless.
Title: Swimming - Ramsgate baths
Dated: c.1930
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Santa Maria degli Angeli occupying the former tepidarium of the largest bath complex of the ancient world, the Baths of Diocletian. Other traces of the baths can be seen in the Museo Nazionale Romano, the cloister of the church, a couple other churches several blocks away, the Octagonal Room and Piazza della Republica itself.
Once luxurious Imperial Baths, built in 1927, where people "took the waters." After a long period of vacancy and decay the old bathhouse is currently being restored. Sharon Springs, New York.
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 Baths are a major tourist attraction and, together with the Grand Pump Room, receive more than one million visitors a year, with 1,037,518 people during 2009.
The water which bubbles up from the ground at Bath falls as rain on the nearby Mendip Hills. It percolates down through limestone aquifers to a depth of between 2,700 and 4,300 metres (8,900 and 14,100 ft) where geothermal energy raises the water temperature to between 69 and 96 °C (156.2 and 204.8 °F). Under pressure, the heated water rises to the surface along fissures and faults in the limestone. This process is similar to an artificial one known as Enhanced Geothermal System which also makes use of the high pressures and temperatures below the Earth's crust. Hot water at a temperature of 46 °C (114.8 °F) rises here at the rate of 1,170,000 litres (257,364 imp gal) every day, from a geological fault (the Pennyquick fault). In 1983 a new spa water bore-hole was sunk, providing a clean and safe supply of spa water for drinking in the Pump Room.
The statue of King Bladud overlooking the King's Bath carries the date of 1699, but its inclusion in earlier pictures shows that it is much older than this.
The first shrine at the site of the hot springs was built by Celts,[6] and was dedicated to the goddess Sulis, whom the Romans identified with Minerva. Geoffrey of Monmouth in his largely fictional Historia Regum Britanniae describes how in 836 BC the spring was discovered by the British king Bladud who built the first baths.
Early in the 18th century Geoffrey's obscure legend was given great prominence as a royal endorsement of the waters' qualities, with the embellishment that the spring had cured Bladud and his herd of pigs of leprosy through wallowing in the warm mud.
Roman use of the building
The name Sulis continued to be used after the Roman invasion, leading to the town's Roman name of Aquae Sulis ("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 2nd century it was enclosed within a wooden barrel-vaulted building,[6] 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 5th century, these fell into disrepair and were eventually lost due to silting up,and flooding.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle suggests the original Roman baths were destroyed in the 6th century.
About 130 curse tablets have been found. Many of the curses related to thefts of clothes whilst the victim was bathing.
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 18th-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. Victorian expansion of the baths complex followed the neo-classical tradition established by the Woods. In 1810 the Hot Springs failed and William Smith opened up the Hot Bath Spring to the bottom, where he found that the spring had not failed but had flowed into a new channel. Smith restored the water to its original course and the Baths filled in less time than formerly.
The visitor entrance is via an 1897 concert hall by J M Brydon. It is an eastward continuation of the Grand Pump Room with a glass-domed centre and single-storey radiused corner.
The Grand Pump Room was begun in 1789 by Thomas Baldwin. He resigned in 1791 and John Palmer continued the scheme until its completion in 1799.
The elevation on to Abbey Church Yard has a centre piece of four engaged Corinthian columns with entablatures and pediment. It has been designated by Historic England as a grade I listed building.[The north colonnade was also designed by Thomas Baldwin.
The south colonnade is similar but had an upper floor added in the late 19th century.
Sutro Baths, which were named in honor of former San Francisco Mayor Adolph Sutro (1894–1896), housed the world’s largest indoor pool when they opened in 1896. The building surrounding the baths and pool burnt down in 1966, but the baths had previously closed due to high operation costs.
Even though the site was abandoned over 40 years ago, the ruins on the edge of the Pacific are still visible and open to the public.
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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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In February 2011, Manchester City Council set its budget proposals, mainly to try and tackle the cuts that the Council will be facing due to the economic situation.
The budget proposals make for scary reading.
As well as a controversial plan to effectively cease to be an Early Years provider of daycare and sell off its Sure Start nurseries to other providers, there are also local cuts which affect the people of Levenshulme, notably the baths.
The local swimming baths has always been popular with residents (indeed when this shot was taken, many people were going in) and there have been campaigns before to save the baths when it has been faced with closure.
The campaign has already had a demonstration and meeting take place, and there are plans for further demonstrations.
I for one would be gutted if a well used local amenity went without due consultation with the local residents.
Date taken: 05/18/2007
Photographer: Priyen Patel
This picture, located in Martin Luther King’s Historical Museum, shows that barbering in the south was mainly a black work that served the whites. It was one of the few opportunities black men had to make good money and a better living. Alonzo Herndon, the owner of this barbershop, started with a one-chair shop in Jonesboro, and slowly worked his way to the top in the Atlanta as well as becoming one of the wealthiest African Americans in Georgia. . It had been said that by 1910 he did not operated his barbershop successfully but owned real estate that was valued to be $37,540. This particular barbershop was located at 66 Peachtree Street in 1906. The shop catered exclusively to a white clientele, conforming to segregations laws of the day. It was a full service establishment that offered haircuts, shaves, baths, shoeshine and pressing to “a better class” of white men. The African American barbers who worked there were well respected in the black community. The shop had twenty-five chairs, crystal chandeliers, marble paneling and mahogany doors. The success of the barbershop owned by Herndon was the foundation of Herndon’s greatest business achievement, the Atlanta Life Insurance Company.
Sutro Baths, San Francisco
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Light painted with a pocket projector, image of Laughing Sal from a photo I took at the Musee Mechanique, formerly located at the Cliff House.
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