Victoria Baths
Edwardian municipal bathhouse with stained glass, Turkish baths and class-divided entrances.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Victoria Baths in Manchester starts on the day in March 1993 when the city council closed its doors, and reaches back to the Edwardian opening that made it famous and expensive in equal measure. It follows the class-and-sex divisions still carved over the entrances, and the cautious arrival of mixed bathing in 1914. Best heard standing before the three carved doorways on Hathersage Road.
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