Separation of wet and dry areas in a Victorian Turkish bath,

with a view of the interior


Separation of wet and dry areas
 

Mixed wet and dry area

 Wet area Dry area  
                      
           

        Cooling room at the Savoy Turkish baths in the Strand

                View of the mixed wet and dry area (seen from red arrow on the plan),        
and the shampooing room (inset)

< Plan adapted from:  The Turkish bath: its design and construction… / Robert Owen Allsop. — London : Spon, 1890. — p.21

< Image from a postcard, published by the baths, c.1917, in the collection of the Victorian Turkish Bath Project.

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