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The Chadderton Swimming baths and Leisure Centre. unfortunatly the Swimming Baths is now closed due to Health and Safety reasons and the council believe it is too costly to repair. Instead there building a new Leisure Complex on the site of the former Chadderton Council Depot merging many local services into one.
PARISH of SAINT MARY
NEWINGTON
PUBLIC BATHS and WASH HOUSES
This stone was laid on the 21st day of August 1895 by W.G. Cannon Chairman in the presence of the following Commissioners
J.P. CLARK H. HICKS
FRED COLE A. WILSON
W.R. CORY
L. J. DUNHAM
CLERK
E.B. I'ANSON ARCHITECT
BALAAM BROS.
BUILDERS
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. Visitors can see the Baths and Museum but cannot enter the water.
The coolest outdoor baths ever. Just like a warm bath, but it's outside, so you can catch some rays and still be warm. There is also a nice lap pool that is non-heated.
The ancient settlement developed around several mineral-rich springs (rising at 46ºC), which the Celts believed to have healing powers. These were dedicated to Sulis, the Celtic goddess of healing and sacred waters.
When the Romans arrived, soon after their invasion in 43 AD, they built a great temple beside the Sacred Spring, dedicated to Sulis Minerva, a deity, a hybrid of Sulis and Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom.
The Romans built grand bathing complexes around the hot springs, including the Great Bath, and came here to relax and take advantage of their reputed healing powers.
From the 18th century onwards the Roman baths were gradually rediscovered and became one of the city's main attractions.
We went to Bath for a few days so had to the visit the Baths...
There were too many people so for the first time ever I attempted the multiple photo stack to remove people. Not perfect but not bad for first attempt!
Will Wiesenfeld / Baths performs at Stubb's in Austin, TX on 4.1.2011. See the full set of photos at SoundcheckMagazine.com
Photographed for Soundcheck Magazine by Randy Cremean. For licensing please contact exeromai@gmail.com. Unauthorized use prohibited without prior consent.
In the garden outside the Baths of Diocletian we read from Irenaeus of Lyons on the Apostolic Succession. ©2015 Light & Shadows Photography by Joseph Yarbrough - All Rights Reserved.
Bathroom at Cane Hill. Cane Hill Hospital opened in 1882 as the Third Surrey County Lunatic Asylum. The asylum was designed by Charles Henry Howell and built on a hill overlooking Coulsdon. Cane Hill closed in 1991 and most of the asylum was demolished during 2009.
Not sure how ancient these baths are, whether Roman, Byzantine, or Turkish, but the tree having grown through them is evidence that they have been long in disuse.
This is on Hathersage Road and this is usually where many Manchester-filmed dramas and movies take place, it's mostly used as a morgue in many police dramas such as Prime Suspect (Series Five) in 1996 and more recently Life on Mars
This is currently undergoing major renovation (or restoration) works hence the scaffoldings.
This shot was taken on Saturday 12th April 2008....a day before this year's Victoria Baths trip ;)
room upstairs in
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.
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