IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Rockfield Drive, MANCHESTER, M9 4BF
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Rockfield Drive, M9 4BF by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (57 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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Distance
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Harpurhey Bathhouse Chimney
The tall chimney belonging to the Grade II listed former public baths and laundry at Harpurhey dating from 1909-10 (Historic England List entry Number: 1270790 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1270790 ).
This elevated view is from the second floor of North Manchester Library.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 18 Jul 2018
0.06 miles
5
Preserved Chimney
The chimney to the former baths and laundry complex
Image: © Kevin Waterhouse
Taken: 21 Feb 2018
0.06 miles
6
The former Harpurhey Swimming Baths - Blackley
Image: © Anthony Parkes
Taken: 20 Jul 2011
0.06 miles
7
Harpurhey Chimney
The chimney from the former public swimming baths and laundry is certainly tall, towering over the more modern buildings surrounding it (see Image]). When you stand directly under it and look up, it looks absolutely enormous!
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 18 Jul 2018
0.07 miles
8
Harpurhey
The southern extent of the 'Parkmount Road' development in Harpurhey.
Image: © Peter McDermott
Taken: 2 Sep 2024
0.07 miles
9
Harpurhey Baths & Laundry
The former facility on Rochdale Road
Image: © Kevin Waterhouse
Taken: 21 Feb 2018
0.08 miles
10
Former Baths and Laundry, Harpurhey
Looking across Rochdale Road towards the former swimming baths.
Harpurhey Baths are one of numerous municipal baths constructed throughout the country around the turn of the century, following various social reforms, and public health acts. The baths complexes were principally for social amenity and hygiene, rather than primarily for recreation.
The Harpurhey Baths were designed by Henry Price, the same architect who designed the Grade II* listed Victoria Baths. Built in 1909 (Image]), they were designed to fit an already occupied site, which contained a school and a pub as well as terraced houses and shops lining Rochdale Road.
The baths provided an extremely important social facility in the area and has been associated with community use and gathering, for over 100 years. The male baths closed in 2001, after serious defects were discovered. Since the closure, the baths building has been incorporated in the neighbouring North Manchester Sixth Form Sixth Form College building. The college has transformed the building into an award-winning exhibition space for students and the community.
Harpurhey Baths and Laundry was designated as a Grade II listed building in 1994 while still in use (Historic England List entry Number: 1270790 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1270790 ).
The Way We Were: Harpurhey — A century in the lives of the real 'people like us' http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/nostalgia/way-were-harpurhey--century-1720317 includes some old pictures of the baths, including interior views, in the slideshow.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 18 Jul 2018
0.08 miles