Coast - Blackrock Baths - Co Dublin

The diving platform at Blackrock baths has made frequent appearances in my "Coast" project.  So, it was with a hint of sadness, that I learned that the platform, along with a substantial part of the baths, is to be demolished as being unsafe.

According to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, the baths "have suffered from extensive weather damage and from the ravages of the sea.... making the structures and adjoining land dangerous for members of the public”. 

Built in the mid 19th century, the baths had a 50m pool and could accommodate up to 1,000 spectators. The baths soon became derelict after they closed in the mid 1980s.

These images were produced this summer, during the early morning mists that can envelop Blackrock, - before an all too infrequent "fine summers day!"

"Coast" is an ongoing environmental photographic project, which examines how the sea interacts with man made structures.