Bristol North Baths
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Bristol North Baths
Image: © Derek Harper Taken: 10 Jul 2009
On Gloucester Road, this impressive piece of "Edwardian Baroque" http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=379606&mode=adv was built in 1912. "Red brick with limestone dressings ... Central portico with octagonal shafts to domed pinnacles flanking an elliptical-arched opening with square responds and a moulded archivolt ... A complete public baths with considerable architectural attention to both the front and inside." The baths, which featured in two episodes of "The Young Ones", have now closed, and their future, a matter of considerable local controversy, seems uncertain. Next door is the Bristol Flyer pub.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.474807
Longitude
-2.591576