Sheffield's Glossop Road Turkish Baths:
the cooling-room
< Photo: courtesy of Sheffield City Council
< Photo: Shifrin
The cooling-room in the 1950s. The baths were opened in November 1877 with separate cooling-rooms for smokers and non-smokers1 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 cooling-room after the closure of the baths. The already faded yellow curtains have disappeared from the balcony cubicles
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Glossop Road Turkish Baths
Victorian Turkish Baths: their origin, development, and gradual decline
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