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Thread #121939   Message #2956564
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
02-Aug-10 - 06:12 AM
Thread Name: The re-Imagined Village
Subject: RE: The re-Imagined Village
Are Heaton Baths still there, WAV? Seems many of the old ones are long gone, like Durham. In The Village the old Victorian municipal baths were replaced in 1962 by the new sports complex built on the Purgatory Fields which put paid to the Teanlowe Fire tradition before revivalist incomers had a chance to get their grubby hands on it. It was just about dead anyway, the custom being carried out by two brothers who took the ceremony to the Northern Territories of Australia (having emigrated on the proceeds of selling their ancestral land to developers) where, I believe, it flourishes as part of the annual Darwin Hallowe'en Celebrations.