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Victoria Baths - Manchester
From a recent visit to the former bath house on National Heritage Day, it was nice to revisit the Manchester landmark and for free too! My last visit was four years ago on a specially arranged photographers only guided tour, whilst that was great to have the run of the place; asides from the bathrooms themselves, some external buildings there wasn’t so much to see.
However this time around the building has since received it’s National Lottery grant of £3 Million, unfortunately this has had to be mainly spent on the exterior of the building which it has to be said is more than evident. It has been returned to its former grandeur, as T. de Courcy Meade and his assistant Arthur Davies intended when it first opened in 1906.
Whilst this was an open day and there a quite a few visitors, which was encouraging to see (generating more funding for further restoration) the major difference to my previous visit was far more access to the front elevations of the building, including being able see all of the beautiful stained glass windows on the ground floor.
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