Part of the cooling-room at the London Hammam

             
Part of the cooling-room at the London Hammam.

I have highlighted the area of the photograph which shows the suspended towel arrangement described in The Turkish bath: its design  and construction by the architect  Robert Owen Allsop.

The 'tent', devised to protect the modesty of bathers, was lowered over their naked bodies as they climbed out of the plunge pool.

< Living London / G Sims. — London : Cassell, 1902. — vol.II; sect.II; p.369                   

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