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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/
Seperate Male & Female entrances to Haggerston Baths in Whiston Road, hopefully the swimming pool will one day be restored and resurrected.
Opened 1904, Grade 2 listed 1988, closed since Feb 2000.
Read about it in 'Great Lengths: the historic indoor swimming pools of Britain' and 'Hackney: Modern, Restored, Forgotten, Ignored'
The Sutro Baths were a multi-recreation center built at the end of the 19th century. It had at least five different pools, whose water circulation was serviced directly by wave action from the bay. By the mid 1960s, the site was condemned, demolished and consumed by fire.
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.
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.
The Sutro Baths opened in 1896, touted as the world's largest indoor swimming pool. There were seven different pools of varying temperatures, a concert hall, an ice skating rink and toboggan slides. The building was enclosed by an enormous glass roof and had indoor heating.
As you can imagine, the maintenance costs proved difficult and it was a struggle to keep the baths open. It was closed in 1966 and soon after burned to the ground in a random fire.
Roman Baths Museum, Bath.
Roof Fragment.
Hollow box tiles were used to reduce the weight of the heavy roof and insulate the baths. The curved roof tiles formed an outer covering to protect the roof from the weather.
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/
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/