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 statler
Location: UK Farnborough
Gender: Male
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< on 2/10/2010 12:00 AM >
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White Rock Baths was originally opened as a male swimming pool and turkish baths in 1878, then owned and operated by the Hastings and St Leonards Public Baths & Aquarium Company Limited. In June 1911 the baths closed and reopened as the Baths Cinema, which at full capacity could seat 1,600 people on a floor constructed over the pool. In 1934 the site was rebuilt and reopened as baths and a swimming pool again, and many of the art deco features installed at this time remain. At the end of 1964 the baths and saltwater olympic-size swimming pool were decommissioned, with the pool being boarded over again to be used this time as an ice rink. It remained open in this role until 1997, when the building became too difficult to maintain, due to it being mostly below sea level. Some areas have clearly been disused since the baths section closed in the 60s, although many features in these parts of the site remain.
 
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seicer
     
Location: New York
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 2 on 2/10/2010 12:21 AM >
| | | | Are they restoring this?
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statler
Location: UK Farnborough
Gender: Male
| | Re: Hastings Ice Rink
<Reply # 3 on 2/10/2010 12:29 AM >
| | | | Yes I think the local residents are organising a protest march for this place to be renovated to its former glory.
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Mr. "D"
  
Location: East Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
| | Re: Hastings Ice Rink
<Reply # 4 on 2/10/2010 1:05 AM >
| | | | Very cool!
I do hope they save it, but as most places these days it all depends if the money is there to do it.
Thanks for the pics statler.
"If you don't believe your country should come before yourself. Ya can better serve your country, by living somewhere else" - Stompin' Tom Connors
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yota94
Location: AEQUITS.VERITAS. CALI.
Gender: Male
| | Re: Hastings Ice Rink
<Reply # 5 on 2/10/2010 4:20 AM >
| | | | awesome find!!! i love the today shot compared to the old one and great history
[last edit 2/10/2010 4:20 AM by yota94 - edited 1 times]
UER might as well be crack...
oh and Thats TOYOTA...dick. |
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hatsumi
| | | Re: Hastings Ice Rink
<Reply # 6 on 2/11/2010 12:55 AM >
| | | | and with lights ! very cool place....
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Crumpet
Location: Brisbane, AUS
Gender: Male
You know you're in Brisbane when...
| | | Re: Hastings Ice Rink
<Reply # 7 on 2/11/2010 4:45 AM >
| | | | Posted by yota94
awesome find!!! i love the today shot compared to the old one and great history
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Same. Seeing the swimming lanes in the B&W photo then seeing its modern day incarnation was very cool. What an amazing location.
- Crumpet (http://www.urbanillusions.org)
[from micro's "drainer rules"] 3rd RULE: If someone says "rain" or "thunderstorm", the draining is over. |
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