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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.
Built on the site of a foundry, Bramley Baths first opened as a pool and public bath-house in 1904, enabling local residents to wash, swim and use the new Russian Steam Baths. The foundry chimney built with 8000 Kirkstall bricks, still towers over the baths and can be seen from across Leeds. Now in co-operative social ownership. The baths were used for dances during its early years, when the pool was covered with a large dance floor.
The construction of these baths (161-180 A.D.), one of the bost remarkable buildings in Miletus, was made possible by money donated by Faustina, the wife of the Roman Emperor, Marcus Aurelius.
Edited illustration from the California Historical Society of an advertisement for the Sutro Baths in San Francisco. (The only thing that remains is the foundation, next to the Pacific coast.)
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
The Boiler area
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
Bath. The Roman Baths. De gallerij en het grote bad.
The Roman Baths are well-preserved thermae in the city of Bath, Somerset, England. A temple was constructed on the site between 60 and 70 AD in the first few decades of Roman Britain. Its presence led to the development of the small Roman urban settlement known as Aquae Sulis around the site. The Roman baths—designed for public bathing—were used until the end of Roman rule in Britain in the 5th century AD. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the original Roman baths were in ruins a century later. The area around the natural springs was redeveloped several times during the Early and Late Middle Ages.
The Roman Baths are preserved in four main features: the Sacred Spring, the Roman Temple, the Roman Bath House, and a museum which holds artefacts from Aquae Sulis. However, all buildings at street level date from the 19th century. It is a major tourist attraction in the UK, and together with the Grand Pump Room, receives more than 1.3 million visitors annually.[2] Visitors can tour the baths and museum but cannot enter the water.
Hot spring
The water is sourced from rainfall on the nearby Mendip Hills, which then percolates down through limestone aquifers to a depth of between 2,700 and 4,300 metres (8,900 and 14,100 ft). Geothermal energy raises the water temperature here to between 69 and 96 °C (156.2 and 204.8 °F). Under pressure, the heated water rises along fissures and faults in the limestone, until it bubbles up from the ground into the baths. This process is similar to an 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 1982 a new spa water bore-hole was sunk, providing a clean and safe supply of spa water for drinking in the Pump Room.[4]
Water quality
Bath was charged with responsibility for the hot springs in a Royal Charter of 1591 granted by Elizabeth I. This duty has now passed to Bath and North East Somerset Council, who monitor pressure, temperature and flow rates. The thermal waters contain sodium, calcium, chloride and sulphate ions in high concentrations.[5]
The Roman Baths are no longer used for bathing. In October 1978, a young girl swimming in the restored Roman Bath with the Bath Dolphins, a local swimming club, contracted naegleriasis and died,[6] leading to the closure of the bath for several years.[7] Tests showed Naegleria fowleri, a deadly pathogen, in the water.[8] The newly constructed Thermae Bath Spa nearby, and the refurbished Cross Bath, allow modern-day bathers to experience the waters via a series of more recently drilled boreholes.
History
The statue of King Bladud overlooking the King's Bath carries the date of 1982, but its inclusion in earlier pictures shows that it is much older than this.[9]
Archaeological evidence indicates that the site of the baths may have been a centre of worship used by Celts;[10] the springs were dedicated to the goddess Sulis, who was locally identified with Minerva. Geoffrey of Monmouth in his largely fictional Historia Regum Britanniae describes how the spring was discovered by the pre-Roman British king Bladud, who built the baths there.[11] 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.[12]
Roman Britain
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.[13] During the Roman occupation of Britain, and possibly on the instructions of Emperor Claudius,[14] engineers drove oak piles into the mud to provide a stable foundation 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,[10] and included the caldarium (hot bath), tepidarium (lukewarm bath), and frigidarium (cold bath).[15] 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,[16] and flooding.[17] The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle suggests the original Roman baths were destroyed in the 6th century.[18]
About 130 curse tablets have been found. Many of the curses are related to thefts of clothes whilst the victim was bathing.[19]
Post-Roman use
Photograph of the Baths showing a rectangular area of greenish water surrounded by yellow stone buildings with pillars. In the background is the tower of the abbey.
The Great Bath — the entire structure above the level of the pillar bases is a later construction
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.[20] Anne of Denmark came to Bath twice for her health. The court physician Théodore de Mayerne bathed Anne of Denmark in the King's Bath on 19 May 1613.[21] She returned in August 1615.[22] Anne of Denmark was surprised by a flame caused by natural gas in King's Bath, and thereafter used the New Bath or Queen's Bath where a column with a crown and the inscription "Anna Regnum Sacrum" was added in her honour.[23]
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 Neoclassical salon which remains in use, both for taking the waters and for social functions. Victorian expansion of the baths complex followed the Neoclassical tradition established by the Woods. In 1810, the hot springs were thought to have 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.[24]
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.[25] The Grand Pump Room was begun in 1789 by Thomas Baldwin. He resigned in 1791 and John Palmer continued the scheme through to completion in 1799.[20] 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.[26] The north colonnade was also designed by Thomas Baldwin.[27] The south colonnade is similar but had an upper floor added in the late 19th century.[28] The museum and Queen's Bath including the "Bridge" spanning York Street to the City Laundry were by Charles Edward Davis in 1889. It comprises a southward extension to the Grand Pump Room, within which some parts of the 17th-century Queen's Bath remain.[29]
Museum
The "Gorgon head" from the Temple pediment
The museum houses artefacts from the Roman period, including objects that were thrown into the Sacred Spring, presumably as offerings to the goddess. These include more than 12,000 Denarii coins, which is the largest collective votive deposit known from Britain.[30] A gilt bronze head of the goddess Sulis Minerva, which was discovered nearby in 1727, is displayed.[31]
The Bath Roman Temple stood on a podium more than two metres above the surrounding courtyard, approached by a flight of steps. On the approach there were four large, fluted Corinthian columns supporting a frieze and decorated pediment above. The pediment, parts of which are displayed in the museum, is the triangular ornamental section, 26 feet (7.9 m) wide and 8 feet (2.4 m) from the apex to the bottom,[32] above the pillars on the front of the building. It featured the powerful central image of a possible "Gorgon" head glowering down from a height of 15 metres (49 ft) on all who approached the temple.
The great head itself has snakes entwined within its beard, wings above its ears, beetling brows and a heavy moustache.[33] Although there is some disagreement about what this really represents (as Gorgons are usually female),[34] most scholars have converged toward viewing it as a deliberate syncretism of Minerva's Gorgon attribute with the face of a local god who presided over the waters of the nearby sacred spring.[35] The central head has also variously been interpreted as the image of a water god such as Oceanus,[36] or a local Celtic god of the sun.[15] Besides the Gorgon head, the pediment's artistic motif has more recently also been compared to the Jupiter-Ammon clipei found throughout Roman fora and which sometimes depicted local river gods in Celtic provinces.[35]
In early 2010 various stones on the pediment were conserved and rearranged.[37] In 2016, planning permission was received for a new learning centre aimed at schoolchildren and linked to the baths by a tunnel. Funding is being sought from the Heritage Lottery Fund and, if successful, it is hoped the centre will open in 2019.[38][39]
Preservation
Statues on the terrace
The late 19th century carvings of Roman Emperors and Governors of Roman Britain on the terrace overlooking the Great Bath are particularly susceptible to the effect of acid rain and are protected with a wash of a sacrificial shelter coat every few years.[40] Exhibits within the temple precincts are susceptible to warm air which had the effect of drawing corrosive salts out of the Roman stonework. To help reduce this, a new ventilation system was installed in 2006.[41]
In 2009 a grant of £90,000 was made to Bath and North East Somerset Council to contribute towards the cost of re-developing displays and improving access to the Roman Baths,[42] by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport/Wolfson Fund, which was established to promote improvements in Museums and Galleries in England.[43] Subsequent grants have funded further work on the exhibition design and layout by London-based specialist firm, Event Communications.[44][45]
Taken during a sunrise visit with fellow Newcastle Sundance members to Merewether Baths 19th September 2010.
A sizeabale swell combined with high tide kept most (except Pom) at this end of the Baths. Even so; our feet ended up getting wet, as water kept spilling over the sides of the baths!
we went to the mineral baths at the hotel gellért. it's one of those experiences not to be missed, even if the baths are full of naked old hungarian ladies.
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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
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
Melbourne City Baths. The original public baths on this site were built in 1860 to stop people from bathing in the Yarra River which had become quite polluted and the cause of an epidemic of typhoid fever which hit the city resulting in many deaths. The current building was erected in 1903 and evolved from baths to health and fitness services including the largest swimming pool in Melbourne's CBD.
Envision Theatre company put on a sublime set of songs from their favourite musicals. Proceeds from the event went to the fantastic charity Music and the Deaf and the whole performance was signed and actaully performed in the deep end of the 1st class male swimming pool. Victoria Baths played host to a great night where guests were encouraged to bring blankets and hot water bottles as the baths are not heated, all that glass and those tiles keeps the place pretty cold in November, I'm pretty sure I felt that it was warmer outside!
Victoria Baths, Manchester
November 2010
Taking the path through the roman ruins of the Aquae Sulis baths you first go onto a terrace on which are statues of several of the Emperor's statues, including Julius Caesar's. The pool originally had a roof on, so the water wouldn't have been so green. Behind is the Abbey. Great view!
Taking the path through the roman ruins of the Aquae Sulis baths you first go onto a terrace on which are statues of several of the Emperor's statues, including Julius Caesar's. The pool originally had a roof on, so the water wouldn't have been so green. Behind is the Abbey. Great view!
Zero 2000, Fuji Velvia 50
One of the first things my mother and I did in Budapest was hit the spa. After all, our last spa day had been ages and ages ago!
Budapest has several public baths, all of which utilize the abundant geothermal sources in the region. The distinctive odor of sulfur hot springs greets you as you enter the building.
D11374. 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.
Other names: Buckhorn Mineral Wells, Buckhorn Mineral Baths, and Buckhorn Wildlife Museum
Maricopa County, AZ
Listed: 05/10/2005
The Buckhorn Baths Motel is significant at the state level under Criterion A, for its role in the development of tourism in twentieth-century Arizona, and under Criterion C, as an example of the Pueblo Revival style as manifested in commercial tourist architecture.
The Buckhorn Baths is the best-preserved historic mineral springs resort in Arizona, thanks in large measure to the fact that it was in operation as recently as 1999 and remained under a single owner throughout its history, without any major changes being made after its development in the 1940s. It also is representative of an important phase in the evolution of tourist lodging in Arizona and elsewhere in the United States, namely, the transformation of the motor court into the motel, which rapidly became the dominant form of lodging along highways across the country.
Finally, the Buckhorn Baths is an excellent and well-preserved example of the Pueblo Revival style, and in particular of how that style was used by the early developers of Arizona's modem tourist industry. By building a spa and motel in a "native" style and with materials that were indigenous to the region, the Sligers created a tourist environment with the romantic qualities and regional character necessary to attract patrons from across the country.
The development of the Buckhorn Baths began in 1936, when Theodore W. "Ted" and Alice Sliger bought a parcel of land east of Mesa and adjacent to U.S. Highways 60, 80, and 89. Although the surrounding land was almost entirely undeveloped desert, well outside the city limits of Mesa, it fronted on one of Arizona's most popular tourist routes, connecting the cities of the Salt River Valley not only with Florence and Tucson to the south but also with central Arizona, the Mogollon Rim, and the White Mountains in eastern Arizona.
In 1939, hoping to develop their own source of water, the Sligers sunk a well. They struck water, but what came up was far too hot to drink-112 degrees out of the ground-and filled with minerals. However, recognizing that a mineral baths would be a good tourist attraction, the Sligers capitalized on their new find by developing the hot springs. They built a bathhouse capable of serving 75 patrons each day, and cottages that allowed patrons to stay overnight. The Sligers continued to operate the gas station and store, as well as a cafe, but soon the mineral baths and motel operation eclipsed their other enterprises. At its peak, the motel could accommodate a hundred overnight guests. It offered patrons a cafe and dining room, a beauty parlor and gift shop, a post office, the museum with its collection of more than four hundred taxidermy specimens and assorted Indian relics (which also served as a lobby and television room), and a desert golf course with eighteen holes. Over the succeeding years, four additional hot water wells were dug and a contract post office was opened in 1956-it remained at the Buckhorn until 1983-but otherwise little changed at the resort.
The Buckhorn Baths is considered significant at the state level because, while there are a good number of Pueblo Revival tourist properties from this period still standing in Arizona, there are none that are as well preserved as this one and associated with a much rarer and less well-preserved component of the state's tourist economy, namely, mineral hot springs. Also, because OMS No. 1024-0018 Buckhorn Baths Motel Maricopa County, Arizona
the Buckhorn Baths is located on a major thoroughfare that passes through the state's largest metropolitan area, it has become something of a landmark for Arizonans - a symbol of a vanished world of leisurely desert tourism that has been overwhelmed by the urbanization (and suburbanization) of Phoenix and the Salt River Valley.
The August 2009 Flickrmeet was to the old Victorian Swimming Baths on Moseley Road. Spot the Ancient Victorian snack machines...
The Friends of Moseley Roads Baths are trying to preserve and restore this historic building
Other names: Buckhorn Mineral Wells, Buckhorn Mineral Baths, and Buckhorn Wildlife Museum
Maricopa County, AZ
Listed: 05/10/2005
The Buckhorn Baths Motel is significant at the state level under Criterion A, for its role in the development of tourism in twentieth-century Arizona, and under Criterion C, as an example of the Pueblo Revival style as manifested in commercial tourist architecture.
The Buckhorn Baths is the best-preserved historic mineral springs resort in Arizona, thanks in large measure to the fact that it was in operation as recently as 1999 and remained under a single owner throughout its history, without any major changes being made after its development in the 1940s. It also is representative of an important phase in the evolution of tourist lodging in Arizona and elsewhere in the United States, namely, the transformation of the motor court into the motel, which rapidly became the dominant form of lodging along highways across the country.
Finally, the Buckhorn Baths is an excellent and well-preserved example of the Pueblo Revival style, and in particular of how that style was used by the early developers of Arizona's modem tourist industry. By building a spa and motel in a "native" style and with materials that were indigenous to the region, the Sligers created a tourist environment with the romantic qualities and regional character necessary to attract patrons from across the country.
The development of the Buckhorn Baths began in 1936, when Theodore W. "Ted" and Alice Sliger bought a parcel of land east of Mesa and adjacent to U.S. Highways 60, 80, and 89. Although the surrounding land was almost entirely undeveloped desert, well outside the city limits of Mesa, it fronted on one of Arizona's most popular tourist routes, connecting the cities of the Salt River Valley not only with Florence and Tucson to the south but also with central Arizona, the Mogollon Rim, and the White Mountains in eastern Arizona.
In 1939, hoping to develop their own source of water, the Sligers sunk a well. They struck water, but what came up was far too hot to drink-112 degrees out of the ground-and filled with minerals. However, recognizing that a mineral baths would be a good tourist attraction, the Sligers capitalized on their new find by developing the hot springs. They built a bathhouse capable of serving 75 patrons each day, and cottages that allowed patrons to stay overnight. The Sligers continued to operate the gas station and store, as well as a cafe, but soon the mineral baths and motel operation eclipsed their other enterprises. At its peak, the motel could accommodate a hundred overnight guests. It offered patrons a cafe and dining room, a beauty parlor and gift shop, a post office, the museum with its collection of more than four hundred taxidermy specimens and assorted Indian relics (which also served as a lobby and television room), and a desert golf course with eighteen holes. Over the succeeding years, four additional hot water wells were dug and a contract post office was opened in 1956-it remained at the Buckhorn until 1983-but otherwise little changed at the resort.
The Buckhorn Baths is considered significant at the state level because, while there are a good number of Pueblo Revival tourist properties from this period still standing in Arizona, there are none that are as well preserved as this one and associated with a much rarer and less well-preserved component of the state's tourist economy, namely, mineral hot springs. Also, because OMS No. 1024-0018 Buckhorn Baths Motel Maricopa County, Arizona
the Buckhorn Baths is located on a major thoroughfare that passes through the state's largest metropolitan area, it has become something of a landmark for Arizonans - a symbol of a vanished world of leisurely desert tourism that has been overwhelmed by the urbanization (and suburbanization) of Phoenix and the Salt River Valley.
This is the original entrance to the White Rock Baths. They knew how to build in those days. The original plan was to make it a swimming pool and an aquarium but they ran out of money and just made it a pool - personally I would not like to share a pool with sharks!
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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