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The August 2009 Flickrmeet was to the old Victorian Swimming Baths on Moseley Road.
The Friends of Moseley Roads Baths are trying to preserve and restore this historic building
Exposición de AntropologÃa Visual.Victoria Baths, Manchester, UK. Octubre-Noviembre, 2012.
Visual Anthropology Exhibition. Victoria Baths, Manchester, UK. October-November, 2012.
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).
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).
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
I didn't know why I had the urge to revisit the swimming baths in Coventry then I found this. It is supposed to be an elephant but I think it's more like an angry fox.
"I take a baths all the time. I'll put on some music and burn some incense and just sit in the tub and think, Wow, life is great right now"
[Brian Austin Green]
Glossop Baths, Howard Park, Glossop, Derbyshire, 1887-89.
By James Murgatroyd (1830-1894).
Gift of Samuel & Anne Kershaw Wood, cotton industrialists.
Pictures from the long abandoned Public baths in Blackrock, Dublin. Once a popular summer spot the baths are now in a state of decay and plans for there demolition have been discussed.
Exposición de AntropologÃa Visual.Victoria Baths, Manchester, UK. Octubre-Noviembre, 2012.
Visual Anthropology Exhibition. Victoria Baths, Manchester, UK. October-November, 2012.
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.
The Antonine Baths, named for Antoninus Pius (ruled AD 138-161), are the most significant ruins left in the Roman city of Carthage, rebuilt under Augustus over the Punic version that the Romans destroyed in 146 BC.
The Baths of Diocletian are the largest public baths ever built by the Romans. "This luxurious and enormous facility served 10,000 people daily for 250 years.
Built of concrete and millions of bricks, the Baths of Diocletian was decorated lavishly with marble walls and floors, hundreds of columns, frescoes, mosaics, statues, and large upper windows that filled the interior with sunlight.
The size of these baths, including the surrounding outside gardens, walls, and other structures, measured 13 hectares (32 acres). The actual main baths building itself was an incredible 4.5 hectares (11 acres) in size. One can only marvel at the labour, resources, expertise, artistry, and planning required to build such a massive complex in only eight years (298 - 306 AD)." atouchofrome.com/baths-of-diocletian-explained.html
Sutro Baths Ruins
Built in 1896, it is located near the Cliff House, Seal Rocks, and Sutro Heights Park. 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 western side of San Francisco by wealthy entrepreneur and former mayor of San Francisco (1894–1896) Adolph Sutro. The facility burned down in June 1966 and is now in ruins. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutro_Baths
San Francisco
May 19, 2018
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/
Pictures from the long abandoned Public baths in Blackrock, Dublin. Once a popular summer spot the baths are now in a state of decay and plans for there demolition have been discussed.
Opened in 1921, the Lincoln Park Baths, located at 1201 Starkweather Avenue in Cleveland's Tremont neighborhood, were designed to emulate Roman bathhouses. Community members, most of whom lacked modern plumbing facilities in their homes, could use the public baths for a small fee. More recently, the baths have been converted into luxury condominiums.
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 private pool with stable door changing rooms. It was very common to have segregated swimming. Also with the change rooms along the side, your door was opend when your pool time had expired and it was time for you to come out.