Men's cooling room in Earls Court Gardens

                

Gentlemen's cooling room in the Turkish baths at James's Hydro in Earls Court Gardens
 

    
Gentlemen's cooling room in the Turkish baths at James's Hydro in Earls Court Gardens

The difference between the furnishing of this room and the women's cooling room perfectly exemplifies Victorian attitudes to the provision of facilities for women.

< Why go away for a  cure? / A R James. — London : The Hydro, c.1927. — inside cover

  

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List of Turkish baths in London

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