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Lymington is a port on the west bank of the Lymington River on the Solent, in the New Forest district of Hampshire, England. It is to the east of the South East Dorset conurbation, and faces Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight which is connected to it by a car ferry, operated by Wightlink. The town of Lymington lies within Southampton and S.W. Hampshire and contains the villages of Beaulieu, Boldre, Hordle, Milford-on-Sea, Pennington and Sway. The town has a large tourist industry, and is situated near the beautiful New Forest. It is a major yachting centre with three marina’s. A beautiful, Georgian market town, Lymington ( population 14,330 ) is situated on the southern edge of the New Forest, between Southampton and Bournemouth and at the western end of the Solent. The town is world renown as a sailing resort; there are two large marinas Berthon and Haven and two sailing clubs RLYC and Lymington Town. Lymington has several interesting independent shops including some designer boutiques. On Saturday a market is held in the High Street, the origins of which probably date back to the 13th century. At the top of the High Street is the Parish Church, St Thomas Church ( built around 1250 ), from the bottom of the High Street a cobblestone road leads down to the Old Town Quay, still used as a base by commercial fishing boats.
The earliest settlement in the Lymington area was around the Iron Age hill fort known today as Buckland Rings. The hill and ditches of this fort still remain, and an archaeological excavation of part of the Walls was carried out there in 1935. It has been dated to around the sixth century BC. There is also another supposed Iron Age site at nearby Ampress Hole. Evidence for later settlement (as opposed to occupation) however is sparse before Domesday. Lymington itself began as a Anglo-Saxon village. The Jutes arrived in what is now South West Hampshire from the Isle of Wight in the 6th century and founded a settlement called limentun. The Old English word tun means a farm or hamlet while limen is derived from the Ancient British word lemanos meaning elm-tree. The town is recorded in the Domesday book of 1086 as Lentune. About 1200 the lord of the manor, William de Redvers created the borough of New Lymington around the present quay and High Street while Old Lymington comprised the rest of the parish. He gave the town its first charter and the right to hold a market. The town became a Parliamentary Borough in 1585 returning two MP's until 1832 when its electoral base was expanded. Lymington continued to return two MP's until the Second Reform Act of 1867 when its representation was reduced to one. On the passage of the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 Lymington's parliamentary representation was merged with the New Forest Division.
From the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century Lymington was famous for making salt. Salt works comprised almost a continuous belt along the coast toward Hurst Spit. From the early nineteenth century it had a thriving shipbuilding industry, particularly associated with Thomas Inman the builder of the schooner Alarm, which famously raced the American yacht America in 1851. Much of the town centre is Victorian and Georgian, with narrow cobbled streets, giving an air of quaintness. The wealth of the town at the time is represented in its architecture. Lymington particularly promotes stories about its smuggling history; there are unproven stories that under the High Street are smugglers tunnels that run from the old inns to the town quay. Lymington was one of the boroughs reformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835. In addition to the original town, 1932 saw a major expansion of the borough, to add Milton ( previously an urban district ) and the parishes of Milford on Sea and Pennington, and parts of other parishes, from Lymington Rural District - this extended the borough west along the coast to the border with Christchurch.
The Lymington Open Air Sea Water Baths (or historic Roman Seawater Baths) is a life guarded open air lido in Lymington, Hampshire. Built in 1833 it is the oldest lido in the UK, and at 110 metres long by 50 metres wide it is also one of the largest in size and in volume with 1.7 million gallons of water. The baths reopened in 2010 following a campaign by local people who also completed the baths' refurbishment. The current sea water baths date back to 1833 when the Lymington Bath and Improvement Company was set up. The bath house was built shortly afterwards and is now the club house for the Lymington Town Sailing Club. As time went on the baths struggled to compete with others in the area, particularly at Bournemouth. In 1855 they were sold to George Inman who owned a boat building company further up the river. In 1886 the Lymington Sea Baths Company leased the baths from Inman. The baths continued under several different owners until 1929 when they were taken over the by the Lymington Corporation.The 1930s were something of a golden period for outdoors baths and lidos with people flocking to bathe on bank holidays in the summer. Today the baths are owned by Lymington and Pennington Town Council.
P & I took a trip here after Govanhill Baths, just for exterior shots as the building is is quite unusual... we had no idea it was shut.
We walked around and noticed boards on the windows then a note on the door saying it was closed for annual maintenece opening agin in 2010. BINGO I thought, epsecially when the door opened. But security was having none of my story about how I used to swim there as a child and did my first dive in the pool :)
..... And told us to leave, but managed to get 2 point and click shots before departing :)
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Granite boulders at the Baths National Parks, Virgin Gorda; which were created by volcanic activity and years of erosion.
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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Open air sea baths in the Melbourne suburb of Brighton. Updated with modern additions while preserving the original art deco building.
Roman Baths, Bath.
Tuscan Colonnade & Terrace, 1895-97.
By John McKean Brydon (1840-1901).
Roman Emperors & Generals, 1895-97.
By GA Lawson (1832-1904).
The Roman Baths complex is a site of historical interest in the English city of Bath. The house is a well-preserved Roman site for public bathing.
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,[1] with 1,037,518 people during 2009.[2] It was featured on the 2005 TV program Seven Natural Wonders as one of the wonders of the West Country. Visitors can see the Baths and Museum but cannot enter the water.
The water which bubbles up from the ground at Bath fell as rain on the nearby Mendip Hills. It percolates down through limestone aquifers to a depth of between 2,700 metres (8,900 ft) and 4,300 metres (14,100 ft) where geothermal energy raises the water temperature to between 64 °C (147.2 °F) and 96 °C (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,[3] 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 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.[7] 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.[8]
Roman use[edit]
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.[9] During the Roman occupation of Britain, and possibly on the instructions of Emperor Claudius,[10] 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).[11] 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,[12] and flooding.[13] The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle suggests the original Roman baths were destroyed in the 6th century.[14]
About 130 curse tablets have been found. Many of the curses related to thefts of clothes whilst the victim was bathing.[15] This collection is the most important found in Britain.
The baths in Ambo are next door to the old factory. You can still take a dip there. The lady here will jump down into one of the concrete tubs and give it a good scrub, then turn on a blast of sparkling hot water for you to dunk yourself in. Boys on the left, girls on the right.
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A short, shaky snippet of Baths performing "Hall" off his album "Cerulean." I'm still trying to figure out videography, so I hope you'll forgive the quality.
From the sign:
"The Turkish bath was a room of dry heat where the temperature was set at 160-180 degrees Fahrenheit. The Russian bath was a steam room, soon to be known as the 'Senate,' where patrons sat on marble tiers wrapped in 'togas' enduring the 112-120 degree heat. Flagler had hired a Turkish attendant away from Chicago's Palmer House hotel to supervise the Baths.
Advertising for the baths touted them as cure-alls for heart disease, as well as 'gout, rheumatism, liver and kidney diseases, neurasthenia and obesity.' The logic of treatment, to the extent that the treatment was explained, seems to have focused upon relieving 'congestion' in affected internal organs by drawing the patient's blood away from the body's core to the skin through induced sweating. A patron would enter the baths from the hotel or the Casino and go to one of forty cubicle dressing rooms to disrobe. Then he would follow a path prescribed by his physician or by the staff which might involve being sprayed from a hose and given a shampoo, followed by a steam in the Russian bath, then a stint in the circular shower bath where a variety of jets of water would be sprayed on the patient -- then back to the steam room and finally a quick dip in the cold plunge in the center of the bath area. Afterwards he might repair to the 'resting room' for a massage and a glass of Clarendon Springs mineral water."
The Lightner Museum is housed in the former Alcazar Hotel which was built in 1888 by Henry Flagler. The hotel housed the world's largest indoor swimming pool at the time. The museum opened in 1948 with the art and curio collection of Otto C. Lightner.
I have a thing about taking portraits of statues and busts. It's compulsive and I should probably figure out some way to parlay that into a project.
I have previously put up a shot of the Baths, but this one is a much higher resolution picture.
In 1881 when the Lea Road Baths opened in Gainsborough (next to the Town's water works), employment was scarce, so the Council employed local men to build the facility using Council funds. They became the first publicly owned baths in Lincolnshire, and one of the very first in the Country.
At the turn of the 20th Century swimmers from far afield came to enjoy the baths - they came from Newark, Grimsby & Scunthorpe and many other towns.
From 1881 to 1900 the pool was 50 feet long, but in 1900 they were extended to 75 feet.
Mr Jack Hinch, a well known Gainsborough man, was Superintendant for 28 years, still in office when the Lea Road Pool closed on September 15th, 1973.
The baths were really in two parts: firstly the "slipper baths" where one basically hired a bathroom for half an hour - remember that in those days, very few homes had baths, and not many had running water indoors. The Slipper Baths, opened in 1912, continued to be available after the closure of the pool, until about 1975 - even at that date there was still a demand for people living in undeveloped Victorian houses without bathrooms.
The second half of the building was occupied by the swimming bath. The white vitreous-tiled pool measured 25 yards by 10, and varied in depth from three feet (shallow end) to six feet at the deep end. There was a three-level diving stage at the deep end, the highest platform of which was probably about six feet above the surface of the water.
Along the sides of the pool, under spectator's galleries, were the changing rooms: mens on the right, ladies on the left. These were simply wooden screens about six feet high (with a foot gap at the bottom) with a bench along the back wall, and a hinged wooden door. There were no lockers - you didn't take valuables with you, and left your clothes haging on the pegs in the cubicles. Each changing cubicle was supposed to be for about 8 people, and I guess they were about five feet by twelve inside.
I have strong memories of walking down to here from Benjamin Adlard School each week for swimming lessons in the late sixties and early seventies.
In the Winter - something like mid-October - the pool was emptied and boarded over to become a gymnasium. Each Spring, round about Easter time, the pool was reopened.
The building was demolished in April/May 1978.
Mount Koyasan, Japan. I stayed here for two nights at a Shukubo with the Zen Buddhist Monks. They prepare vegetarian meals (Shojinryori) for breakfast and dinner and let you participate as they chant in the mornings and meditate in the evenings. This was also my first introduction to the public Japanese baths as that is all they had. (This was just good practice for Nozawa Onsen.)
Women were not allowed in the town until 120 years ago. Prior to that the different monestaries were passed down from Head Priest to their best student. Once women were allowed they started getting married and passing them down to their eldest sons who became head priests.
The mother of the head priest joined me for dinner one night. She was quite old. When she was very young she said she went to Tokyo to study English. It was over a 12 hour steam train ride from Osaka back then. (Nowdays it is just around two hours by bullet train and, by the way, Koyasan is not too close to Osaka either.) In Tokyo she enjoyed her English studies and had no intentions of ever returning to Mt Koyasan but with the breakout of WWII and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, her parents convinced her she may be a bit safer on the mountain.
There is one main temple, 117 sub-temples and, two monasteries on this tiny mountain top. They are a part of the Shingon (True Word) sect of Buddhism.
Mount Koyasan, Japan. I stayed here for two nights at a Shukubo with the Zen Buddhist Monks. They prepare vegetarian meals (Shojinryori) for breakfast and dinner and let you participate as they chant in the mornings and meditate in the evenings. This was also my first introduction to the public Japanese baths as that is all they had. (This was just good practice for Nozawa Onsen.)
Women were not allowed in the town until 120 years ago. Prior to that the different monastaries were passed down from Head Priest to their best student. Once women were allowed they started getting married and passing them down to their eldest sons who became head priests.
The mother of the head priest joined me for dinner one night. She was quite old. When she was very young she said she went to Tokyo to study English. It was over a 12 hour steam train ride from Osaka back then. (Nowdays it is just around two hours by bullet train and, by the way, Koyasan is not too close to Osaka either.) In Tokyo she enjoyed her English studies and had no intentions of ever returning to Mt Koyasan but with the breakout of WWII and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, her parents convinced her she may be a bit safer on the mountain.
There is one main temple, 117 sub-temples and, two monasteries on this tiny mountain top. They are a part of the Shingon (True Word) sect of Buddhism.
Fairmeadow, Maidstone, with the splendid Baths (opened 1851) on the left, Fremlins Brewery in the distance and Bert's Transport Cafe on the right. Photo taken late 60s-early 70s, but looks older due to antique car driving past the Baths.
Derby Baths, Promenade, Blackpool. N.S. January 1990
Foundation stone on the west elevation. Where is this stone now?
Photograph copyright: Ian 10B.
Derby Baths, Promenade, Blackpool. N.S. January 1990
The main front entrance, only used on very rare occasions
Photograph copyright: Ian 10B.
After a visit to New York I was very impressed with some of the Art Deco buildings. Unfortunately this seems to be a style that by-passed the West Midlands.
Smethwick baths was built in an inter war moderne style but it does have a slight Art Deco feel about it.
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