Images taken 2008

Harpurhey Baths and Wash House on Rochdale Road, which closed as a public swimming pool in 2001, was a focal point for both work and play for many years.

Washer-women undertook backbreaking laundry work in the wash house, while generation after generation learnt to swim in the pool.

Built in 1910 by Henry Price, Manchester’s first city architect, the baths building was listed in 1994 and now forms part of North Manchester Sixth Form College.