Ladies' day in the cooling-room at
Drumsheugh Baths, Old Queensferry Road, Edinburgh
< Image: Courtesy of Doug Corrance
Daisy and Polly Duncan, relaxing in the cooling-room after their Turkish bath, painted on a women’s day in 1890, at what was then known as the Drumsheugh Swimming and Turkish Baths Club in Edinburgh.
The artist is believed to be a woman, and a member of the Balfour Kinne[a]r family.
The Drumsheugh Baths Club still exists, but the Turkish baths were discontinued some time in the mid-1970s and replaced by a gymnasium.
This page revised
01 January 2023
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Women and the Victorian Turkish bath. Part 7: the bath and women's health
Drumsheugh Baths Club, Edinburgh
Victorian Turkish Baths: their origin, development, and gradual decline
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