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Ordsall Acapella Singers entertained visitors on the September open day at Manchester's Victoria Baths. The choir are pictured performing in the Gala Pool.
Driving around this little town before our girls volleyball game and came upon this awesome old sign on the lower level of this old hotel in Wausa, Nebraska.
The Scunthorpe Municipal Swimming and Slipper Baths was opened in Doncaster Road on 24th March 1932. It was designed by Mr. W Farrar, the council’s engineer and surveyor and built by Barton-Upon-Humber’s Henry Ashton of red brick.
Each Autumn the diving boards were dismantled and the changing rooms folded back whilst over 85,000 gallons of water was drained from the main pool, workmen then set about using 40 tons of timber for the installation of a temporary floor ready for the winter dance season.
Over the years The Baths Hall has played host to a plethora of names including; The Who, Manfred Mann, The Pogues,The Animals, Bad Manners, The Moody Blues, Lulu, Slade, Sweet, Suzi Quatro, Ocean Colour Scene, The Nolans and latterly perennial favourites The Rumble Band. For many years from the early 1980’s The Baths Hall hosted The Scunthorpe Rock Open and over the years thousands of people have attended events like this as well as music festivals, beer festivals and dance festivals. The late radio 1 DJ John Peel rated The Baths Hall as his favourite venue. Many of the areas company’s have also held Christmas parties and various other functions there in the past.
The Baths Hall being prepared for a Shakespeare production
The Baths Hall being prepared for a Shakespeare production
In 1983 Councillor Bob Bath pulled the plug on The Baths Hall, the new Leisure Center had opened in Carlton Street and The Baths Hall pools were drained for the last time. This signalled the start of a refurbishment programe to turn the building into an entertainment venue. It would run like this until 2004 when a new local authority administration closed The Baths Hall as part of a cost cutting measure and rationalisation move.
The Baths Hall was given a temporary reprieve in 2005 when a private sector company lead by Ian Charles took out the lease hold on The Baths but within a year had handed the keys back after not receiving assurances from the local authority about the future of the building. It was known the land that The Baths Hall and neighbouring Youth Centre had been built on was the site of the former Scunthorpe Gas Works and that the land beneath was contaminated.
The Baths Hall and the neighbouring Youth Center were demolished in 2008 with the election pledge by North Lincolnshire Councils Labour Group to rebuild an entertainment venue with something for everyone. Despite many wranglings and political points scoring between the local Tory and Labour groups and opposition from the nearby supermarket Sainsbury’s it was passed that a new Baths Hall would be built incorporating the original 1930s frontage of the old Baths Hall.
Work got under-way to build the new Baths Hall in April 2010 by local company Clugston Construction, the work was complete by the second half of 2011 with the opening date of 11th November which closely coincided with the 75th anniversary of the creation of the borough town of Scunthorpe.
The Baths of Caracalla were the second largest Roman public baths, after the Baths of Diocletian, although the Caracalla are in a better state of preservation than the Diocletian.
The baths were built around AD 212, during the reigns of emperors Septimius Severus and Caracalla. They were in use until the 530s and then fell into ruin with the fall of the Roman Empire.