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The door of the old Ashton baths, which now stands abandoned like an oasis in the desert of modern development at the West end of Ashton Under Lyne. As a child I once swam here shortly before it closed forever. The inside was festooned with beautiful Victorian tilework and the pool was surrounded by changing cubicles with green canvas curtains. And the water was blinkin' feezing!
SUTRO BATHS, SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- These are the ruins below the Cliff House restaurant. The colored lighting is all from colored gels over a hand-held flash.
For suggestions about how to photograph Sutro Baths, take a look at the California page of the Free Photo Guide website.
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The hot springs at Bath have been enjoyed by local people since prehistoric times. They were discovered by the Romans around 65 AD. The Romans, who were not used to getting their hot water for free, knew a good thing when they saw it and built a temple and bath on the site. Most of the remaining structure within about a foot of the water level is Roman, including some lead pipes feeding the main rectangular pool that still function. After the Romans left, their buildings collapsed and were built upon by later generations.
The Roman baths were very elaborate including hot, tepid and cold pools. The floors were heated by hypocausts, passages under them, supported by stacked tiles, for air heated by a wood burning furnace. The museum on the site displays Roman era coins and other objects thrown in the pool as offerings by bathers seeking the healing properties of the hot mineralised water.
This is Rolfe Street Baths, originaly built in 1888 in Smethwick, West Midlands. The building is a fantastic example of late nineteenth century civic architecture. In 1989 the building was taken down from its Rolfe Street location, preserved and recorded brick by brick before being re-built at the Blackcountry Museum ten years later.
3 Image HDR, converted to Black and White in Alien Skin Exposure.
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
Michaela's first baths (before and affter she lost her cord).
Michaela's first baths (before and affter she lost her cord).
Abbotsford Baths, Parramatta River, New South Wales.
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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.
When I last came to San Francisco in September 2010 to test my Nikon D5000, I took one shot of the Sutro Baths, but did not bother to walk down there.
Now, at the end of July 2011 and back with the Nikon, I am making the walk down.
To the left in the distance can be seen another historical landmark that is still operational - Cliff House.
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
In 1929 Rev. Dence from Court Grange paid for the creation of the Village Baths in what is now the Parish Rooms. This is official picture of the opening with the Bishop of Exeter with Arthur Dence stood to his left
1929
Huge bath complex in City Park. Three outdoor pools which I hear are glorious in the winter (think: steam rising at night). Inside, there is bath upon bath that you can dunk yourself in, all at different temperatures. Steam and sauna, too.
Mosman Council has completed a sympathetic upgrade of this much-loved facility, in keeping with the heritage and environmental aspects of the site. Read more
D11372. The Thermal Baths in Buxton were built around 1852/3 but rebuilt in 1900 with the interior being reconstructed in 1912. They were converted into a shopping mall around 1985 and now house some interesting antique and retro shops.
Monday, 22nd September, 2014. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
This was taken with my iPhone 4s using the Hipstamatic app. It was an adventure to get this photo. Our sailboat hooked up to a mooring ball. We took a dinghy boat from our sailboat to the dinghy mooring lines close to shore. From the dinghy , I swam to shore with my iPhone in a waterproof bag. I had a battery extender hooked up to my phone to keep it alive during this photo shoot. My wife and I had to share one battery charger cord through out this vacation due to the theft of a spare cord from our luggage.
This magnificent centrepiece of the Roman baths is a pool, lined with 45 sheets of lead, and filled with hot spa water.
It once stood in an enormous barrel-vaulted hall that rose to a height of 40 metres. For many Roman visitors this may have been the largest building they had ever entered in their life.
The bath is 1.6 metres deep which is ideal for bathing and has steps leading down on all sides. Niches around the baths would have held benches for bathers and possibly small tables for drinks or snacks.
The Baths have the only natural hot springs in the country, they developed the area around the thermal springs, building a reservoir to capture water, a temple and a lavish complex of baths, changing rooms and public spaces of the sort they were used to in the rest of the Empire.
The temple here was dedicated to Sulis Minerva, the conflation of Roman goddess Minerva with a local deity (the Roman name for the town was Aquae Sulis). A gilt bronze head of the goddess survives and can be seen in the museum at the Roman Baths, along with other fragments of sculpture and mosaics.
Images from the now closed swimming pool in Harpurhey Manchester.
Here's a little history.
The decline and closure of Harpurhey Baths
It was not really until after the First World War that bathing became a habit. By that time most of the houses being built had their own bathrooms where baths could be taken in ease and comfort. This improvement in housing meant that public facilities were no longer required for sanitary purposes. Similarly, relative cheapness and availability of domestic appliances meant that laundries also fell into decline. Manchester City Council closed all its laundries in the early 1980s.
Harpurhey Baths finally closed completely in 2001 after serious defects were discovered in the building’s walls and machinery. Cracks in the baths’ walls that had previously been repaired had widened beyond repair and some of the walls were bowing. There were also problems with the baths’ steam boilers and the drainage system. The North City Family and Fitness Centre, incorporating a 25 metre swimming pool, was due to open 18 months later nearby on Moston Lane, making running repairs to the baths, which would have cost £3m, unfeasible.