FOLLOWING a major reconstruction, the first-class swimming bath reopened in 1960, with this new entrance from Spencer Street, hailed by the Keighley News as “simple, clean, modern, but not aggressively so”.

It was indeed thought “a pleasure to stop and look at” – a comment an architectural taste of the time. The baths roof appears behind.

There were problems in attempting to “tie in the new building with the old”, with space neither to lengthen nor deepen the bath. At its official reopening the Mayor, Alderman JS Bell, voiced a growing opinion insofar as he would “not like to see it revert to a dance hall during the winter”.

After the baths closure in 1989, the entrance stands here fornlornly awaiting demolition.

This is another photograph from Kevin Seaton.