Edinburgh Turkish Baths, Princes Street:

hot room, and cooling-room with plunge pool

Illustrations reproduced by courtesy of Edinburgh City Libraries & Information Services

The first hot room (left) had a central raised platform and several smaller ones round the outside of the room for bathers to recline on. Glass doors and a central glass screen divided it from the cooling-room, with the plunge pool straddling the two rooms allowing bathers to swim underwater below the dividing screen.

This page enlarges an image or adds to the information found on the following page:

 Princes Street Turkish Baths, Edinburgh

Victorian Turkish Baths:
their origin, development,
and gradual decline

To return to your previous page

USE THE BACK ARROW

Otherwise, use one of these:

Comments and queries

are most welcome.

The right of Malcolm Shifrin to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him
in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988