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Dollan Baths
Dollan Aqua Centre (previously known as Dollan Baths) is a 20th-century category A listed building in East Kilbride, Scotland. Design Designed by Alexander Buchanan Campbell and named after former Lord Provost Sir Patrick Dollan, it was opened in 1968 as Scotland's first 50-metre (although not Olympic standard) swimming pool. It consists principally of pre-stressed concrete and imitates a colossal marquee - the vaulted 324 ft parabolic arched roof appears to be held down by pairs of 'V' shaped-struts that meet the ground at a 30° angle. Buchanan Campbell admitted that he had been influenced by the architecture of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan and the designs by Kenzo Tange for the gymnasium there. In 1993, the international conservation organisation Docomomo International listed Dollan Baths as one of sixty key monuments in Scottish post-war architecture. It was listed in 2002 (as Dollan Aqua Centre) as a Category A building by Historic Scotland. Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Sir Patrick Joseph Dollan (3 April 1885 – 30 January 1963) and his wife, Agnes Dollan, Agnes, Lady Dollan (née Moir; 16 August 1887 –16 July 1966) were Glasgow activists in the Scottish Independent Labour Party. During the World War I, First World War they campaigned against the Munitions of War Act of 1915 which suspended trade unionism, trade unionists' rights for the duration of hostilities. Early years Born in Baillieston, Lanarkshire on 3 April 1885 of Irish descent and raised Roman Catholic, Dollan attended St Bridget's elementary school until he was ten years old. He later joined his father working as a miner at Clydeside Colliery in 1900. He married Agnes Dollan, Agnes Moir, a Protestantism, Protestant, in 1912. She was a suffragette and a staunch pacifist during World War I. Activism Patrick and Agnes Dollan were vocal in raising awareness of the plight of thousands of Glasgow tenants who were having their rents raised at a time when military conscriptio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
