VICTORIA BATHS

Victoria Baths is on Hathersage Road in Manchester 13. It was opened in 1906 to provide swimming and bathing facilities for the people of Manchester. The Baths closed in 1993 and the campaign for restoration has been on-going since then. For more information, visit the official website.

Victoria baths from Hathersage Road

Commemorative plaque

Ground floor entrance - panelling and stained glass

Ground floor entrance - stained glass

Ground floor entrance - inner partition stained glass

Ground floor - the next series of images show four (of six) stained glass windows depicting different sports - Cricket

Football

Boxing

Golf

First Class Male and Gala Pool

First Class Male and Gala Pool - stained glass window

First Class Male and Gala Pool - changing cubicles

Stained glass in the door to the First Class Male and Gala Pool

Fish mosiac in the floor at the entrance to the First Class Male and Gala Pool

Modern stained glass window by Christine Bedwell

Stained glass from a door to the women's area

Female Pool

Female Pool, changing cubicles

Upper floor, tiles, ceramic arch and stained glass

Upper floor, ceramic balustrade

Stairwell

Tiles - detail

Turkish Bath area - ceramic arch and tiles

Turkish Bath area - wash basin

Commemorative window for Sunny Lowry, a Manchester lass, who swam the English Channel in 1933. She later became a patron of the baths.

Turkish Bath area - the Aeratone, a hot bath with vigorous bubbles used to teat ailments causing stiffness and pain in joints and muscles.

Bay window in the Rest Room of the Turkish Bath (three more detailed images below)

The central panel depicting the Angel of Purity

Part of panel depicting an iris

Part of panel depicting a waterlily

One of three more windows in the Rest Room of the Turkish Bath

As above

I am deeply grateful to the staff of the Victoria Baths Project, and especially Stephen Helme, for the priviledge of visiting the baths and taking photographs.