A Wonderful Old Building

[Canary42]

They don't make them like that any more. This article may be of interest for anybody into architecture, it covers the preservation of a magnificent swimming baths in Birmingham.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-51463367

P.S. Filed under CB as we don't appear to have an Architecture category.

[maggiebee]

Wow, magnificent. Glad this beautiful building has been preserved.

[marval]

That is amazing, good to hear it is being preserved.

[barry1010]

That was my local baths when I was a child. Used the public bath as well as the swimming baths as we didn't have a bath at home.

[pastafreak]

Magnificent...and interesting that men and women were initially segregated.

[Tilly2]

Thanks for posting this, Canary. That's fantastic.

[jno]

a beautiful building - a shame the "after" picture is buried in the middle of the story like that, it should go up the top.

Pasta, one of the pools near me when I was young had two pools , for women and men. Though I didn't know about it until quite recently, the men's one was apparently a popular gay pick-up spot (I don't know if the women's side fulfilled a similar function). But I used to go to a mixed-sex tepid pool for preference anyway; it wasn't covered but it was warm year-round. Nothing as handsome as Birmingham had.