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Manchester
When it opened in 1906, Victoria Baths on Hathersage Road, Manchester, was described as "the most splendid municipal bathing institution in the country" and "a water palace of which every citizen of Manchester can be proud." Not only did the building provide spacious and extensive facilities for swimming, bathing and leisure, it was built of the highest quality materials with many period decorative features:- stained glass, terracotta, tiles and mosaic floors.
some of the stained glass
The old public baths in Sofia haven't been open for quite a long time...in fact, I don't even know when was the last time they had welcomed people.
The building is about one century old and it's been closed for rennovations for quite a lot of time.
In the last few years there have been discussions and even projects for making it Museum of Sofia.
Hopefully, like other famous buildings, the Sofia Public Baths will be finally renovated and shining with its original beauty.
* One of the beaches at The Baths *
We were on a 9 day eastern Caribbean cruise aboard NCL Jewel out of New York City. We took an excursion to The Baths on Virgin Gorda. Hiked the trail through the boulders and are happy we can still physically handle it.
Exposición de AntropologÃa Visual.Victoria Baths, Manchester, UK. Octubre-Noviembre, 2012.
Visual Anthropology Exhibition. Victoria Baths, Manchester, UK. October-November, 2012.
On a whimsy, I tried dying some samples of wool yarn. The dye bath at right is made of red onion skins and the other two are unsweetened Kool-Aid. I didn't realize I had to microwave the Kool-Aid dye baths to set them, but that's pretty easy to do next time, and the dye seemed to take really well without the additional heat. I had bright orange fingers all day from putting them into the fruity-smelling dye bath.
I went out and bought more Kool-Aid.
Roman Baths
Bath, England.
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I went down to the baths on saturday night to try to get some pictures of the moonrise. The moon wasn't co-operating with my plans, but I was happy with some of the other shots I got. Isn't that always the way?
The sprawling ruins of these 3rd-century baths are 400 metres north of Ulus Meydanı. The bath was built during the reign of Emperor Caracalla to honour Asclepios, the God of Medicine. Today, only the basement and first floors remain.
The layout of the baths is clearly visible, with the standard Roman apoditerium (dressing room), frigidarium (cold room), tepidarium (warm room), and caldarium (hot room). A Byzantine tomb and Phrygian remains have also been found here.
The "thermae" were the city's public baths. There were relatively few private baths and these were limited to the most well-to-do families, given that the latter were the only ones who could afford to build rooms suited to the purpose.
The thermal bath buildings were divided into two sections: one reserved for women and one reserved for men. Each of these contained a series of rooms with different functions:
1) apodyterium or changing room
2) frigidarium or cold bath room
3) tepidarium or tepid bath room
4) calidarium or hot bath room.
The system of heating the rooms - which was fairly ingenious -worked by running heated water through the cavities in the wall.
Exposición de AntropologÃa Visual.Victoria Baths, Manchester, UK. Octubre-Noviembre, 2012.
Visual Anthropology Exhibition. Victoria Baths, Manchester, UK. October-November, 2012.
Exposición de AntropologÃa Visual.Victoria Baths, Manchester, UK. Octubre-Noviembre, 2012.
Visual Anthropology Exhibition. Victoria Baths, Manchester, UK. October-November, 2012.
Standing at the northern edge of the City Park, the Széchenyi Baths are the largest complex of spa baths in Europe. Budapest.
Govanhill Baths in Calder St, Glasgow, currently closed but there is a campaign to get it restored and re-opened for the people of Govanhill
For more details see www.govanhillbaths.com/
The Forum baths in Pompeii: recently reopened after significant restoration work, which didn't stop some of the tour parties walking on the original mosaic floors (sigh).
Roman Baths - My boyfriend enjoying his favorite weather
Bath, England.
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