Manchester's Victoria Baths come back to life with a splash

Local swimmers returned for the first time in decades as part of a £30m restoration project to return the pool to its former gloryBobbing about in the shallow end of the first-class pool at Manchester’s Victoria Baths, Susan Menzies was awash with nostalgia. “It’s very emotional. I’m going back to my youth here. I’m not swimming around as a 60-odd-year-old – I feel 15 again,” she said, turning around for one last length of breaststroke as light str