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Application to approve listing of Carlisle Turkish Baths approved in step forward

The Friends of Carlisle Victorian and Turkish Baths took 20 lucky people back in time m with a tour of Carlisles historic James Street Baths. As part of their campaign to save and develop the Baths as a Health and Wellbeing Centre, the Friends group organised two tours of the Grade II listed Turkish Baths on Sunday 1 August. The 40 minute tours took the visitors back in time, painting a picture of the James Street area as it was in the 1800s with rows of terraced houses interspersed with...

My return to surfing in Hawaii June 3, 2021 | Surfing I arrived back in Hawaii in May 1960, under entirely different conditions, together with my friend, Raphael Soriano, the noted California architect, who was looking into the potential of erecting some of his beautiful steel houses on the Islands. I was shocked at what I saw. The developers had gotten their hooks into Waikiki, and the tract builders were spreading their litter, amoeba-like, over the lovely hills and dales of the southern coas...

Waikiki is one of the best places to learn to surf, but it is also home to a few challenging surf breaks for advanced and fearless wave riders.