Manchester's Victoria Baths opened in 1906, described at the time as 'the most splendid municipal bathing institution in the country'. After the baths closed in 1993 the building quickly fell into dereliction. Through the efforts of English Heritage, Victoria Baths Trust and the BBC Restoration programme enough money was raised to begin work in 2007. I'd been looking forward to this trip like a kid waiting for Christmas - faded grandeur, exposed brickwork, peeling wallpaper a

As part of the York Theatre Royal community theatre project 'In Fog & Falling Snow' the costume department took up residence in the old Robson Cooper shop in central York. I headed over one lunchtime expecting to shoot the costumes team in action, but found myself rapidly distracted from needle & thread by the building and it's past. Originally an 18th Century private Mansion house, a leatherworks business was founded here in 1840 making saddlery & harnesses for Queen Victori