- Coventry Central Baths was a leisure centre in Coventry, England. It is located on Fairfax Street in the city centre...
- Fairfax Street, Coventry. Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places.
- Coventry is important as amongst the most ambitious baths built anywhere in Britain in the short period...
- The shabby foyer of Coventry’s central baths holds few clues to the magnificent arena perched above.
- The Coventry Central Baths are a fine example of planning and organisation.
- In August Coventry Council approved plans to close the centre and replace it with a £37 million leisure centre holding a pool half the size of the 50m original.
- Exterior shot of Coventry Central Baths with retro advertising hoardings and neon lights.
- Wartime bombing destroyed four of Coventry’s five swimming baths. By 1956 the city decided that its needs would best be met by a very large central complex.
- The disused Coventry Central Baths, which more recently was renamed Coventry Sports & Leisure Centre, continues to cost the city council about £400,000...
- These dramatic stills were taken as a part of a film, The Bird and the Elephant, which was shot inside Coventry Sports and Leisure Centre before it closed in 2020...