Sheffield's Glossop Road Turkish Baths:

 the cooling-room
The cooling room in the 1950s   The cooling room balcony after the baths had closed

< Photo: courtesy of Sheffield City Council

 

The cooling-room in the 1950s. The baths were opened in November 1877 with separate cooling-rooms for smokers and non-smokers  which remained in use until they were closed, despite many protests from smokers, in 1990. The crude metal framed beds would not have been part of the original furniture.

 

< The Swimming baths. — Sheffield : the City Council, 1958. — p.24
                 

 

< Photo: Shifrin

 

The cooling-room after the closure of the baths. The already faded yellow curtains have disappeared from the balcony cubicles

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