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Community Archive with 500 items related to Victoria Baths, is available online from 9th September 2005. See photographs and documents collected by volunteers and hear some of our visitors talk about their involvement with Victoria Baths.
- Items related to Victoria Baths
- Individual items on: Harold Dodd, Sunny Lowry, Edna May (memory of Louis Armstrong 1965); Phil Moss, Chandan Coverley, Lionel Pate.

Pool Arts, a group of artists that have a long-standing connection with Victoria Baths, now have a new website - www.poolarts.org

Manchester Community Forum is a forum for discussing all aspects of Manchester life, local issues, history, nightlife, events, activities, etc

Industrial Powerhouse features the best of the North West's indutrial and social heritage sites

For a wide range of tourist information about Manchester and the region, including what to do, where to stay, etc

To find accommodation in the vicinity of Victoria Baths see bedandbreakfasts.co.uk

For accommodation in the city centre of Manchester

The BBC's Restoration website gives details of Victoria Baths' victory, and updates on the other Restoration finalists.

For information about the 2004 Restoration winner visit www.historickingsnorton.org.uk

BBC My Manchester provides some personal views of the summer campaign at the Baths and in London.

All over Britain people are campaigning to save other local swimming pools, including some other historic pools like Victoria Baths:
In Stockport: Save Reddish Baths

In Birmingham: Friends of Moseley Road Baths
In London: The Camden Sports Campaign, Haggerston Pool, the London Pools Campaign
In Glasgow: South Side Against Closure
In Bristol: send an email to Bristol North Pool

For more pictures of Victoria Baths and other buildings of interest in Manchester, including QTVR panoramas you can visit Aidan O'Rourkes Eyewitness in Manchester Site, or his Portfolio site

designfood exists to feed the imagination of anyone interested in architecture, the built environment and design in the North West. The site contains news & events, jobs and a full discussions forum.

For more memories of Victoria Baths and Longsight you might like to visit the Longsight Memories website.

The Tile and Architectural Ceramics Society offers lots of information relating to Victorian and Edwardian tiles such as the ones at the Baths.

The tiles at Victoria Baths were made by the Pilkington Tile Company.

For lots of information about Turkish Baths, including more photographs of Victoria Baths and details about where you can take a Turkish Bath in Britain visit the Victorian Turkish Bath website.

For more information about Sunny Lowry and other swimmers who have swum the Channel visit The Dover Cross Channel Museum site.

The Victoria Baths Trust has received funding from:
English Heritage
The A6 Partnership
The Architectural Heritage Fund
The Neighbourhood Renewal Fund
The Heritage Lottery Fund
The Restoration Fund

The Victoria Baths is a member of The Association of Building Preservation Trusts.

Other Building Preservation Trusts in Manchester are the Ancoats Buildings Preservation Trust and the Monastery of St Francis and Gorton Trust.

The Victoria Baths Trust is a member of the Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisations