This is the first of Joseph Constantine's two alternative plans for Isaac Holden's Turkish bath.
The facilities used by bathers are all on one level, with the furnace in an adjoining room. The layouts of the hot room and shampooing room were slightly altered, so that the flues would be in the most appropriate position, but the facilities in each were the same.
They comprised an entrance porch with adjacent toilet, a large cooling and dressing room, a hot room with two benches—one of which was raised 5ft above the floor—and a shampooing room with marble slab, circular needle douche, and washbasin.
Alison Cullingford, Special Collections Librarian at the JB Priestley Library, University of
Bradford, for her help in finding these plans and much else.
© Malcolm Shifrin, 1991-2023