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After yesterdays miserable sunrise I took the ndx500 to Newcastle Baths for a play!!
Quite happy with the results......
inside the Roman baths.
Photo by: Robert and Regina M, USA
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The Great Roman Bath, 1st century AD, with superstructure by John McKean Brydon, 1895-97.
Bournville Baths, Bournville, Birmingham - complete with purple Dairy Milk lamp-post as a nod to Cadbury's
The Gellért Baths complex includes thermal baths, which are small pools containing water from Gellért hill's mineral hot springs
Eva waits in line on the women's side of the baths at Lourdes. Water from the spring at the grotto feeds the "piscines" with a constant temperature of 12C (55F). On a warm summer Sunday, the wait was about 3 hours.
I really love this old building in Poplar, East London. The baths closed in 1988, although I think there are campaigns for regeneration...
Merewether Ocean Baths, NSW, Australia
As I was heading in to Newcastle for a photo-shoot I could see the moon low on the horizon so I decided to take the scenic drive along the coast. I couldn't resist a quick stop for a few photos when I got to Merewether Ocean Baths.
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The largest sector of the excavation included a very well preserved bath complex. It stands on a level site 21 m. wide between two long and high walls of fine construction in which many reused architectural elements have been incorporated. The baths continue both towards the east, inside the National Gardens, but also to the west, along Vassilissis Amalias Avenue and contain two hypocaust rooms, two praefurnia (heating spaces) and nine chambers. They were constructed after the Herulian raids at the end of the 3rd or early 4th c. A.D. and were later destroyed, and then reconstructed and enlarged during the 5th-6th c. A.D. ​
​The larger of the hypocausts has fifteen column supports, some of them cylindrical, some square. This hypocaust served the room with the hot baths (caldarium). Immediately to the north lies yet another oblong hypocaust, the floor of which was supported by seventeen marble columns instead of hypocausts. This is the room with the warm baths (lepidarium). The two furnaces are connected to the hot baths by underground vaulted passages. Hot air was circulated via three small chambers. Vertical openings in the chambers provided ventilation and the heating of the walls themselves. To this phase belongs a large well-built rectangular tank, with a thick coat of hydraulic plaster inside and marble slabs outside, which supplied water through two openings to the two found marble basins.
​​In the second phase, occurring in the 5th-6th c. A.D., the hypocaust rooms were repaired and brought back to use. Four new chambers were built with tiled floors. One of these was constructed underground with a vaulted roof, and in it a well was dug for drawing up water. These rooms have wall-paintings that testify to their later use as refuge or martyrs' memorial in the early Christian years. During the Byzantine times, clay silos for storing cereal were sunk into the floor of the rooms of the bath-houses, some of which were restored in the south part of the archaeological site.
The beautiful main chamber of the old Arabic Bath-house in Ronda, a preserved relic of the town's Moorish period.
The baths, known locally as 'los Banyos Arabes', were built sometime around the start of the 13th century formed a sequence of formely hot and cold rooms fed by water via an aqueduct (connected to a large, donkey-powered, water wheel-system nearby).
The finest feature is the beautiful barrel-vaulted ceiling pierced by star-like openings, forming skylights that create a play of light throughout the interior.
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 which was also owned by Adolph Sutro at the time. Both the Cliff House and the former Baths site are now a part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and operated by the United States National Park Service.
A visitor to the Baths not only had a choice of 7 different swimming pools—one fresh water and six salt water baths ranging in temperatures—but could 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. During high tides, water would flow directly into the pools from the nearby ocean, recycling the 2 million US gallons (7,600 m³) of water in about an hour. During low tides, a powerful turbine water pump, built inside a cave at sea level, could be switched on from a control room and could fill the tanks at a rate of 6,000 US gallons a minute (380 L/s), recycling all the water in five hours.
The baths struggled for years, mostly due to the very high operating and maintenance costs, and eventually closed. A fire destroyed the building in 1966 shortly after, while in the process of being demolished. All that remains of the site are some cement walls, blocked off stairs and passageways, and a tunnel with a deep crevice in the middle. The Sutro Bath ruins are open to the public, but a warning sign advises strict caution, as visitors have been swept off by large waves and drowned at the site.
Currently, visitors coming to the Sutro Baths from the above parking lot are presented with a sign that describes the history of Sutro Baths starting from its construction and glamorous opening to the public in 1896. Another sign describes the later years of the site's history up until its demolition and complete destruction by fire in 1966. As one walks up out of the ruins toward the historic Cliff House, home to two full service restaurants: "Sutro’s at the Cliff House" and "The Bistro", as well as the "Terrace Room", a private Dining/reception room, one can find other pictures, paintings, and relics from the golden age of Sutro Baths’ functional operation.
Seal Rock is just offshore from the bath ruins.