The cooling room at the GWR Turkish bath

             
Cooling room of the Turkish baths at Swindon provided by the Great Western Railway (GWR) for its railwaymen and their families as part of its Medical Fund Society.

Although the baths were set up earlier, they were moved to their present site, when the Turkish baths were added in 1868. This makes them the oldest Turkish baths still open in the British Isles, though much of the original baths provision has changed.

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Urquhart and the London Hammam. Part 6: Plan, reality, and conclusion

The Turkish bath as a procedure