The pool area is designed in the style of Victorian swimming baths, with porcelain tiles and a high ceiling.

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Manchester City Council has proposed to close the library and the local swimming baths and replace them with a new joint facility.

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Like Fransisca, business rates are an ongoing concern for Chris Mortimer, shop manager at Out of Time Records opposite Fore Street swimming baths.

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But the centre piece of the Bath Spa Project will be a stone cube on the site of the 1920s Beau Street swimming baths.

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The exhibition is the first at Dovecot Studios, Britain's principal tapestry studio, now newly installed in a resplendent renovated swimming baths on the south side of the Scottish capital.

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