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Swiss Cottage Swimming Baths, Hampstead, London: a school swimming class in the teaching pool
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NOTES: The Swiss Cottage Swimming Baths and Central Library were the only completed buildings of a scheme for a civic centre in Hampstead. These baths and Coventry Central Baths, designed by Coventry City Architects Department in 1966, were the only complexes of the period to be built with three pools.
Royal Commonwealth Pool, Edinburgh: the rear or north-east elevation
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NOTES: Built for the 1970 Commonwealth Games, this complex with long course pool and diving pool closed for refurbishment in 2009.
Royal Commonwealth Pool, Edinburgh: the main pool seen from the cafeteria
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NOTES: Built for the 1970 Commonwealth Games, this complex with long course pool and diving pool closed for refurbishment in 2009.
Public swimming baths, Putney, London
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NOTES: These baths were given an RIBA Architecture Award in 1969.
Haggerston Baths under construction, Whiston Road, Hackney, London: the steel roof trusses
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SOURCE: Builders' Journal & Architectural Record, vol. 24, 1906 Oct. 10 Concrete and Steel Supplement, p. 76