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The Victoria Baths, near Longsight in Manchester, were designed as a prestigious baths complex by Manchester's first City Architect, Henry Price, and opened by Manchester Corporation in 1906. In their design and construction no expense was spared. The facade has multi-coloured brickwork and teracotta decoration, the main interior public spaces are clad in glazed tiles from floor to ceiling and most of the many windows have decorative stained glass.
For 86 years the Victoria Baths provided both essential and leisure facilities. Private baths and a laundry were housed there along with three swimming pools and the Turkish Baths. The main swimming pool was floored over in the winter months to hold dances. In 1952 the Victoria Baths installed the first public Aeratone (jacuzzi) in the country.
An epic sunset at Sutro last Sunday evening. I was surprised by the glorious colors at this location when I took my family for a casual evening sunset trip here
Demolition of the interior of the Public Baths in Arbroath in June, 1993. (Photograph - Wallace Ferrier)
For many years independent operators have taken school children to the swimming baths providing a useful source of off peak income. The firm with whom I started my working life in the bus industry was no exception and Stoniers of Goldenhill ... later Tunstall, had several such contracts. Here 'our' penultimate new Leyland Leopard TVT 863R awaits the returning rabble outside Tunstall's elderly Public Baths in Greengate Street circa 1980. Bodywork was by Plaxton to their Supreme III 'Express' design seating 53.
I gather Tunstall's baths are now earmarked for closure along with several other council run facilities as the authority strives to make cuts. I'm not sure how or where the kids will learn to swim if it is indeed still a legal requirement (?)
ARKIV 060202 - Men whipping each other with branches inside the extremely hot sauna. With a large oven and two floors sauna it can hold dozens of people. Arasan Baths -a large sauna complex with Finnish, Russian and Turkish baths with seperate sides for men and women as well as private saunas.
ALMATY, KAZAKSTAN, KAZAKHSTAN
Foto: Christopher Herwig - Kod 9266
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(Swedish: Varbergs Varmbadhus) Inaugurated in 1925 and then the only warm baths with saltwater in Sweden. Built in a style of architecture that´s called Nordic Classicism (in Great Britain and Sweden this style is also called Swedish Grace). Architect: Allan Berglund, Gothenburg.
sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Berglund (website in Swedish)
After my stop at Lincoln Park I made it to Sutro Baths just in time for the sunset. I didn't know till later but I had to opportunity to shoot next to Joe Azure and his friend Amy. Joe is someone I have followed on here and on Google+ for a while and he is an amazing landscape & Seascape photographer from the Bay Area. Little did I know it was him when I was there. Click his Google+ link to see his shot!
San Francisco, CA
January 6, 2011
Canon 7D
Canon 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye
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Stirchley Baths, now a community centre at the corner of Bournville Lane and Hazelwell Street in Stirchley, Birmingham.
Grade II listed.
Stirchley Public Baths, Birmingham
SP 08 SE BIRMINGHAM BOURNVILLE LANE
Stirchley
997/12/10208
Stirchley Public Baths
GV II
Swimming baths. 1910, by John P. Osborne. Red brick in Flemish bond and diaper pattern blue brick, and with stone dressings. Slate roofs.
PLAN: Quadrant on plan, with main bath range on north with boiler house and chimney to west, tower to east and range to south and east with main entrance at centre of curved front.
Edwardian Baroque style.
EXTERIOR: Single storey. Long curved SE front with parapet and cornice, and rusticated stone aedicules with broken pediments containing festoons; moulded cill and cornice and rusticated stone entrance centrepiece with Ionic pilasters, broken pediment containing festooned cartouche inscribed A 1910 D, coved round-arch doorway with quadrant panelled double doors, flanked by small diamond-shape windows; small octagonal cupola above with consoles and inscribed Public Baths on drum, and lead-clad dome. Large gable end on right to main north range with moulded string, large semi-circular window with raised voussoirs and occulus on raised gable of ridge light, flanking broad rusticated pilaster on left and tower on right corner, with rusticated stone lower stage with cornice and broken pediment at front with occulus, and brick upper stage with two stone quoins on each corner, and parapet with moulded stone coping raised over corners, and with louvered cupola with shallow lead-clad dome. Chimney at rear west end of north range with round-arch panels and cornice.
INTERIOR largely intact. Glazed tile pool, open to braced iron roof trusses and ridge-light; white glazed brick walls with red brick dressings; changing cubicles below and above balconies on side walls. Glazed screen at entrance, ticket hatches and glazed brick walls.
Listing NGR: SP0533481233
If you've never bathed in warm seaweed followed by a rinse off in an ice-cold shower, then frankly, you have not yet lived. Seaweed baths are a popular attraction in the Sligo seaside town of Enniscrone.
These baths, built in 1850, were apparently badly damaged by a hurricane shortly afterwards. The newer baths are located nearby, but sensibly placed quite a bit above the waterline.
My dad had got his shoes swamped by seawater while we were walking to the location for this shot. Sorry Dad.
This was my 5th attempt at this shot at Sutro Baths, with the two rusty poles in the foreground. During my previous attempts the sunsets all fizzled, but tonight the clouds held the color for an extended time after sunset. I took several shots, but ended up liking this particular one which had a longer exposure time of 13 seconds. I haven't done such a long exposure in a while, and I'm happy with the "dreamy" quality that resulted.
Nikon D7100
Tokina 11-16mm lens
ISO-100
f/13
13 seconds
+1.3 step exposure bias
11 mm
Lee 0.9H grad ND filter
The above image was taken on Sunday 1st June 2014 at Victoria Baths, Manchester.
This was my first time at Victoria Baths and during this visit I decided to shoot exclusively using a very wide angle lens (a 12mm Sigma) and also use my usual HDR style.
For more information about Victoria Baths see the site:
#Manchester #Victoria #baths #hdr #sigma #12mm
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A photo I took of the Lincoln Baths at Saratoga Spa State Park in the fall. Living in Saratoga, I am blessed with many beautiful architectural subjects to photograph.
The Buckhorn Baths Motel was famous for its mineral-rich waters and welcomed a vast array of guests from baseball players and movie stars, to high level businessmen and politicians. Constructed between 1935 and 1947, the motel housed a large collection of wildlife taxidermy specimens. The facility has been abandoned for years.
Victoria Street entrance to the Glossop Road baths in Sheffield.
Glossop Road Baths originally housed a swimming pool and Turkish baths. The first public baths in the city of Sheffield were opened on the site in 1836, following the cholera epidemic of 1832. The complex was rebuilt from 1877 to 1879 to a design by E. M. Gibbs, including an indoor swimming pool, a Turkish bath suite and a hairdresser. In 1898, the complex was bought by the city council and a ladies' bath was added. The facade was rebuilt in 1908-1910 by Arthur Nunweek. After a period of decline at the end of the 20th century and later closure of the baths, the building was largely converted to residential accommodation, with a Wetherspoons bar called "The Swim Inn" (now closed) in the former main swimming pool area. The Turkish baths were fully modernised and reopened as Spa 1877 in 2004, but closed again in 2019.
The above image was taken on Sunday 1st June 2014 at Victoria Baths, Manchester.
This was my first time at Victoria Baths and during this visit I decided to shoot exclusively using a very wide angle lens (a 12mm Sigma) and also use my usual HDR style.
For more information about Victoria Baths see the site:
#Manchester #Victoria #baths #hdr #sigma #12mm
1866 Warrington's public baths were opened. They were bought by the council in 1873. Two more pools were added in 1912. As you can see in one of the photographs the police Force also used them as a training centre
The above image was taken on Sunday 1st June 2014 at Victoria Baths, Manchester.
This was my first time at Victoria Baths and during this visit I decided to shoot exclusively using a very wide angle lens (a 12mm Sigma) and also use my usual HDR style.
For more information about Victoria Baths see the site:
#Manchester #Victoria #baths #hdr #sigma #12mm
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Morning light baths a desert oak at Ayer's rock, Australia.
The above image was taken on Sunday 1st June 2014 at Victoria Baths, Manchester.
This was my first time at Victoria Baths and during this visit I decided to shoot exclusively using a very wide angle lens (a 12mm Sigma) and also use my usual HDR style.
For more information about Victoria Baths see the site:
#Manchester #Victoria #baths #hdr #sigma #12mm
Victoria Baths, Manchester - taken from down in the pool - six feet under
Thank goodness it was empty at the time! I've had enough trouble with water damage and electronics this week after my smartphone ended up in the bath, destined to never work again.
The empty pool featured as a film location in the ITV drama Mrs Biggs about the wife and life of The Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs, first shown in September 2012 a few days after I took the shot.
There are so many similar shots to this on the web, but hey ho, here is another one. The main difference between this and the others is that I took it. Or should I say "them". A blend of three exposures done in Photoshop Elements, HDR style hopefully without looking like one of those convoluted HDR shots.
Beautiful. The Baths are a listed building on Hathersage Road, not far from the "Curry Mile" in Rusholme, Manchester.
It appeared on the BBC's Restoration programme a few years ago and got a fairly sizeable sum to help to restore it to its former glory. We've not been for a while but they seem to have made steady progress over the years, but it is far from the finished article, so to speak.
The place attracts visitors from all over the world. I was standing outside having a chat with another Flickr member, Andy, when a taxi drew up with an American lady in. She said that Victoria Baths were first on her list of places to visit in Manchester, just having flown in from New York.
Loads of progress has been made in the Turkish Baths section and this awesome stained glass window is in the cooling down section (I'm sure it has a fancy name but I'm not sure what it is - but it probably ends in -ium).
Whilst I really like the building and we all need a bit of "heritage", the place has had millions spent on it and needs millions more. Which takes some justifying when there is a huge building full of sick children a few hundred metres down the road. But in an ideal world, we'd save and cure the kids and have a pristine almost good as new (but retaining the character) Victoria Baths as well.
Well worth a visit but please check the opening times as there are only a few days you can gain access.
Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands.
The Baths is Virgin Gorda's most famous beach, due to its hidden caves and pools nestled amongst the giant granite boulders.
The above image was taken on Sunday 1st June 2014 at Victoria Baths, Manchester.
This was my first time at Victoria Baths and during this visit I decided to shoot exclusively using a very wide angle lens (a 12mm Sigma) and also use my usual HDR style.
For more information about Victoria Baths see the site:
#Manchester #Victoria #baths #hdr #sigma #12mm
Underground baths at the Real Alcázar in Seville, Andalusia, Spain. Modern tourism being what it is, you get about 10 seconds to take this shot before someone elbows you politely in the throat.
"New" stained glass windows by Baska József, 1974.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell%C3%A9rt_Baths
hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell%C3%A9rt_gy%C3%B3gyf%C3%BCrd%C5...
Budapest, Gellért Baths, late Art Nouveau style, 1912-1918.
Architects: Sebestyén Artúr, Hegedűs Ármin & Sterk Izidor
Stained glass window: Róth Miksa, Róth Manó, design: Hende Vince
Ceramics: Zsolnay
The Budapest bath complex was built between 1912 and 1918 in the (Secession) Art Nouveau style. It was damaged during World War II, but then rebuilt.
References to healing waters in this location are found from as early as the 13th century. A hospital was located on this site during the Middle Ages. During the reign of the Ottoman Empire, baths were also built on this particular site. The "magical healing spring" used the Turkish during the 16th and 17th centuries.
ARKIV 060202 - Inside the extremely hot sauna. With a large oven and two floors sauna it can hold dozens of people. Arasan Baths -a large sauna complex with Finnish, Russian and Turkish baths with seperate sides for men and women as well as private saunas.
ALMATY, KAZAKSTAN, KAZAKHSTAN
Foto: Christopher Herwig - Kod 9266
COPYRIGHT PRESSENS BILD
The Roman Baths complex is a site of historical interest in the English city of Bath. The Baths are a major tourist attraction and, together with the Grand Pump Room, receive more than one million visitors a year. The Baths themselves are below the modern street level. There are four main features: the Sacred Spring, the Roman Temple of Aquae Sulis, the Roman Bath House and the Museum which you can walk around and admire the Roman artefacts which have been recovered from the site. The buildings above street level date from the 19th century. The main bath house has some fabulous Roman Soldiers carved in the famous bathstone overlooking the baths. The temple was constructed in 60-70 AD and the bathing complex was gradually built up over the next 300 years.
I used a new tool called Oloneo Photoengine (which is in beta) to merge two handheld shots (normal and -2ev) to get some blue sky. This tool is very easy to use and gives a good amount of control on the end result.
My Bath set.
Art Déco statue by Telcs Ede from 1927, in the park of Gellért Baths. It was built from 1912 to 1918, but the statue was stood only in 1927 with several other Art Déco style statues.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell%C3%A9rt_Baths
hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell%C3%A9rt_gy%C3%B3gyf%C3%BCrd%C5...
Budapest, Gellért Baths, late Art Nouveau style, 1912-1918.
Architects: Sebestyén Artúr, Hegedűs Ármin & Sterk Izidor
Stained glass windows, mosaics: Róth Miksa, Róth Manó, design: Hende Vince
Ceramics: Zsolnay
The Budapest bath complex was built between 1912 and 1918 in the (Secession) Art Nouveau style. It was damaged during World War II, but then rebuilt.
References to healing waters in this location are found from as early as the 13th century. A hospital was located on this site during the Middle Ages. During the reign of the Ottoman Empire, baths were also built on this particular site. The "magical healing spring" used the Turkish during the 16th and 17th centuries.
"New" stained glass windows by Baska József, 1974.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell%C3%A9rt_Baths
hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell%C3%A9rt_gy%C3%B3gyf%C3%BCrd%C5...
Budapest, Gellért Baths, late Art Nouveau style, 1912-1918.
Architects: Sebestyén Artúr, Hegedűs Ármin & Sterk Izidor
Stained glass window: Róth Miksa, Róth Manó, design: Hende Vince
Ceramics: Zsolnay
The Budapest bath complex was built between 1912 and 1918 in the (Secession) Art Nouveau style. It was damaged during World War II, but then rebuilt.
References to healing waters in this location are found from as early as the 13th century. A hospital was located on this site during the Middle Ages. During the reign of the Ottoman Empire, baths were also built on this particular site. The "magical healing spring" used the Turkish during the 16th and 17th centuries.
Canon 5D Mark111
Sigma 35mm F1.4 DG
ISO 200 | 35mm | F16 | 6 sec
Lee Filters - 1.2Soft / 1.2ND
10 Frames
Merewether Baths - Newcastle
With the clear skies I thought I'd go for this Vista.
If you look closely you can see Jeff Smith in the Bottom RHC of the pool.
The Roman Natural Baths; The Roman Baths in Bath, Somerset.... "Aquae Sulis"
The Roman Baths complex is a site of historical interest in the English city of Bath. The complex is a very well-preserved Roman site of public bathing. The Roman Baths themselves are below the modern street level and has four main features, the Sacred Spring, the Roman Temple, the Roman Bath House and the Museum holding finds from Roman Bath. The buildings above street level date from the 19th century. - source en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_Pump_Room
More on Roman Baths www.romanbaths.co.uk/
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A close up photo of the Lincoln Baths at Saratoga Spa State Park.
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Located at the west end of Geary Boulevard in San Francisco, this is a section of what is left of the old Sutro Baths that burnt down in 1966.
I just got this shot off using an aperture of f8. I wanted to include more star detail; however attempts to capture this view using a wider aperture, resulted in significant loss of image sharpness at the edges. Sadly, some debris pollution mixed in with algae is visible in the foreground. This kind of pollution in the parks system is rapidly increasing, and has unfortunately become a real obstacle for photographers.
I was however, just happy to get out this past weekend and explore a new location.
Nikon D700
18-35mm f3.5 at 18mm
97 Seconds
f8
ISO 200
(No Filters)