Ripon Spa Baths

Swimming is Britain's most popular participation sport. Nearly one in five of us swim at least once a month, and we make around 80 million visits to swimming pools every year.
But what of the pools themselves? For some swimmers they bring back goosebump-inducing memories of eye-scorchingly chlorinated water, mouldy cubicles, saggy woollen costumes and UFOs (unidentified floating objects). But for others, historic public baths are aquatic palaces to be preserved at all costs.
The golden era of pool design was between 1880-1914, when more than 600 baths were constructed, many rich in architectural detail and technological innovation.
Among some of the most noteworthy - then and now - were Bramley Baths in Leeds, Ripon Baths, Park Road Public Baths in Halifax, Starbeck Baths in Harrogate (Britain's oldest operational public pool) and Beverley Road Baths in Hull.
Taught my lad to swim at these Baths & spent many a leisurely hour in the Cafe next door, a few more photos here