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Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands.
The Baths is Virgin Gorda's most famous beach, due to its hidden caves and pools nestled amongst the giant granite boulders.
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Main Reception
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
he 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.
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 Jewry Wall is the only standing structure of Roman date in the city, and one of the finest in the country. It was probably constructed as the western wall of a palaestra (exercise hall) c.125-130 AD. The area in front of it is the remains of the Roman baths, built c.135-140 AD. It is a Scheduled Monument.
Carthage, the Roman baths of Antoninus Pius. Sunday November 3, 1974.
A digital copy of a 35mm Agfa CT-18 film transparency.
Buxton baths are located in the centre of Buxton, Derbyshire. The building dates back to the 1800s, and is a grade two listed building, it's one of the attractions to the town
Taken on a recent holiday to the Cotswolds.
A min before the water was green and ripples, next this... then back the green.
Taken with Canon EOS 7D and Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6
Sea Baths on the east coast of Australia are wonderful places. In the last six years or so I've lived in Sydney's eastern suburbs, and then Newcastle, both of which have stunning sea baths.
I grew up on the east coast, in a small town called Moruya. The coast line, rocks, beaches and sea are all familiar, but we didn't have these type of built structures at the beach. The first time I visited Bondi, as a teenager, I hated it. The idea of concrete steps leading down to a beach was just wrong ... and it was sooooo crowded. In retrospect, it wasn't particularly crowded, I just wasn't used to more than a dozen people on miles of beach.
I've come to accept concrete at the beach, and am a fan of the friendly, slightly decrepit sea baths that scatter the more populous parts of our coast, and are a throwback to life 100 years or so ago.
This series of photos were taken in a recent visit back to Coogee, where Kalu and I lived for nearly three years.
A hypocaust is an ancient Roman system of central heating. The word literally means "heat from below", from the Greek hypo meaning below or underneath, and kaiein, to burn or light a fire. This one is in Bath's Roman Baths Museum.
Located at the west end of Geary Boulevard, at Land's End, facing both the Golden Gate and Ocean Beach, this area hosted Sutro Baths, a legendary bathhouse at the turn of the 20th Century.
The baths eventually declined with widespread availability of indoor plumbing in many homes, and a fire destroyed the buildings for good in the 1960s, leaving this ruin for curious visitors to explore today.
Standing on the foundation. And in the distance, on the beach people are throwing frisbees, fishing, and rock climbing.
Spring Hill Baths were designed by Thomas Kirk and built from 1886 to 1913 by William M Park. It is also known as Arthur Street City Baths and Municipal Baths at Spring Hill.
One of the principal reasons for establishing the Arthur Street (now Torrington Street) bath was its location above the Spring Hollow (Water Street) drain, installed in 1884, the waste water from the baths providing a daily cleanse. River water from Petrie Bight was pumped to a small reservoir at the top end of Albert Street, then gravity fed down Spring Hill to the Hollow, where it was stored in holding tanks (now boarded over) at the far end of the baths. Each evening the pool was drained and every morning the water was replenished in a process lasting several hours. This system of flushing the Spring Hill drain was employed for three-quarters of a century.
Not until 1914 did the city council install a salt-water supply scheme to which the baths were linked. As the Brisbane River grew more polluted, chemicals were added to the pool water, and finally a filtration system was installed in 1961.
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The rear of Acton Public Baths (1904) by D J Ebbetts
Photo taken on a walk around South Acton with the Twentieth Century Society on 7th March 2009
Manchester
In the design and construction of the Baths, built in 1906, a great deal of money was expended, Manchester having at that time one of the world's wealthiest municipal coffers. The façade has multi-coloured brickwork and terracotta 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.
Roman Baths Museum, Bath.
Tombstone.
'Lucius Vitellius Tancinus, son of Mantaius, a tribesman of Caurium in Spain, trooper of the Cavalry Regiment of Vettones, Roman citizens, aged 46, of 26 years service, lies buried here.'
From the Guildhall 1736.
City Baths, Durham, were opened in the 1930's after replacing a wooden building on the site. Originally the river had been used for open air swimming. Although they shut in 2008, they are fairly trashed now. There are two pools here, the main pool and the beginners pool. Today, a new leisure centre has replaced these swimming baths, leaving these to slowly decay.
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 sleepy western side of San Francisco by wealthy entrepreneur and former mayor of San Francisco (1894–1896), Adolph Sutro. The vast glass, iron, wood, and reinforced concrete structure was mostly hidden, and filled a small beach inlet below the Cliff House, also owned by Adolph Sutro at the time.
A visitor to the baths not only had a choice of seven different swimming pools—one fresh water and six salt water baths ranging in temperatures—but could also visit a museum displaying Sutro's large and varied personal collection of artifacts from his travels, a concert hall, seating for 8,000, and, at one time, an ice skating rink.
When it Budpest you must visit one of the bath houses. I stayed at the Gellert Hotel which has its own famous baths. I also visited the Ruda Baths. I did not go to this beautiful bath but understand its one of the most beautiful in Budapest.
The Széchenyi Medicinal Bath in Budapest (Széchenyi-gyógyfürdő) is the largest medicinal bath in Europe. Its water is supplied by two thermal springs, their temperature is 74°F/23°C and 77°F/25°C, respectively.
Excavation for the new baths, Saul Street. The North Road Methodist Chapel is seen in the background.
These 'new' baths were opened in 1936 and closed in 1991
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The Mayor, Robert C. Handley, laying the foundation stone of the new baths at Saul Street. The old baths were erected in 1851 and closed in 1936. The new baths were opened to the public in 1936 and closed in 1991. Preston Crown Court now occupies most of the old site.
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Construction of the new baths, Saul Street. The old baths were erected in 1851 and closed in 1936
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