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goosey
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Registered: August 2007
Location: Holland
Posts: 2,011
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Thu 17, April 2008 2:33pm
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I wonder how old the building is and how old the tree is. There must have been a window in the roof and the tree grew towards the light and broke through at some time. Did it grow through the floor as well, there must have been tiles if it was a changing room. Part of the tree actually seems to be outside the threshold. This image fascinates me - so many questions!
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paul m
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Registered: November 2006
Location: Sheffield, South Yorks, UK
Posts: 2,407
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Thu 17, April 2008 3:10pm
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The spa which, I think, was at its peak in the 1930s had three constituent parts: a super de luxe hotel, some modest bungalows and these rows of huts for the poorest of the poor. Looking in them they were very basic (floor, wall, roof really). Some of these are still in use - I'm not sure whether charges are made. The hotel is all locked up and ghostly but the bungalows are certainly still in a good state of repair.
Unlike most spas, this seems to have been a very open institution with several options of water to drink and sludge to swill in - including (allegedly) radioactive ones. The sulphurous springs were notable from some way off but there were more salubrious ones including warm springs that fed into the lake ..... All interesting, I'm not sure how health-giving it was/is!
I don't suppose the tree is much more than twenty years old - if that. Poplars and willows do grow at a good rate. ????
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"I started off with nothing ... and I've still got most of it left."
Seasick Steve
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