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Heeley Baths in Sheffield has reached it’s 100th year. Once one of Sheffield’s busiest swimming pool, the baths has shone through the ages and is still as popular now as it was 100 years ago.

As part of the celebrations the baths will be holding 100 length swimming challenges to raise money for Sheffield Children’s Hospital Charity.

100 years ago the Heeley Baths consisted of a swimming pool, slipper bath, a laundry and also a Russian Sauna. Now the sauna is an Afro-Caribbean community centre and the original laundry now a children’s gymnastics club.

During the Second World War the pool was surrounded by barrage balloons and housed its own air raid shelter under the far end of the pool. The laundry room turned into a makeshift nursery and clinic for children, and in 2008 the pool was refurbished providing a new roof with modern insulation and new roof glazing, which resulted in saving money on energy costs. The interior was decorated, and new poolside changing cubicles and vanity units added.

Here are just a small selection of Heeley baths and what it had to offer through the years: