The new-look walking route from the city centre to the new Co-op Live Arena has been unveiled - featuring stunning new artworks, a giant M, glow-in-the-dark trail and a "love letter to Manchester".
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Just over 10 years ago, things were looking desperate for Withington Baths. The last remaining Edwardian pool in Manchester, Manchester council proposed shutting Withington Leisure Centre as well as other pools in Miles Platting, Broadway (New Moston) and Levenshulme to save £80m from its budget.
Despite protests, Levenshulme's 100-year old baths fell victim to the cuts and now stands an eerie ruin. Desperate not to let Withington's unique pool suffer the same fate, residents set up Love Withington Baths Group who battled for two years to save it from closure.
Opened in 1913, Withington Baths is a swimming pool and leisure centre that's been at the heart of Withington for 100 years. The last remaining Edwardian pool in the city, it offers stunning architecture, stained-glass windows, and unique period bath tiles.
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Just a year after it opened, Withington was the first public baths in Manchester to throw off the conservative sensibilities of the preceding Victorian era and allow mixed bathing in the city for the first time. The decision proved such an occasion that queues hundreds long formed 'round the block as people from all over Greater Manchester flocked to the south Manchester suburb to experience swimming with their families: boys, girls, men and women together.
In a story printed in the Manchester Evening News on Thursday July 16, 1914, the event was called a "great success" with 641 people having paid for admission and the baths closing an hour later than usual. Painting a vivid picture, the journalist wrote: "In the evening the ladies, who
The new-look walking route from the city centre to the new Co-op Live Arena has been unveiled - featuring stunning new artworks, a giant M, glow-in-the-dark trail and a "love letter to Manchester".
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