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| Title | Mounts Baths |
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The Mounts baths includes a large public swimming pool, children's pool, gym and Turkish baths. The large, Art Deco Style building also features on the BBC Culture list of the world’s best Art Deco swimming pools, alongside 14 other such iconic buildings, including the Eastern Columbia Building in Los Angeles and the North Sydney Olympic Pool. The Grade II listed building was built in 1936 on the site of the town’s old prison as part of a new civic centre which also included a new fire station, police station and courts. Striking features including the pool’s parabolic arches and tiered windows flooding the building’s interior with light. The baths are particularly unusual, in that Art Deco pools in the UK tended to be outdoors, making it a rarity. |
| Link | https://www.trilogyleisure.co.uk/centres/mounts-baths-leisure-centre/ |