St. Pancras baths and washhouses: interior bath, street entrance to the building, superior bath, wringing machine, ironing and drying-room, hot air machine and washing-room. Wood engravings, 1846.
- Date:
- Saturday 3 January 1846
- Reference:
- 35632i
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"A private bathhouse for the poor was built in George Street, Euston Square in 1846 with water supplied by the New River Water Company. The water company subsequently closed its reservoir and the bathhouse was forced to close"--Marja Berclouw, 'A prosaic but useful service: bathhouses and washhouses, an idea whose time had come', The Victorian web, https://victorianweb.org/science/health/berclouw.html . The building was at 14 George Street, apparently on the west side of the street: in 1966 the street was renamed North Gower Street
Publication/Creation
London (at the Office 198 Strand, in the Parish of St. Clement Danes, in the County of Middlesex) : William Little, Saturday 3 January 1846 (198 Strand : William Little)
Physical description
1 print : wood engraving and letterpress ; image 35.9 x 24 cm
Lettering
St. Pancras' baths and washhouses. ... Inferior bath. Entrance to the baths and wash-houses. Superior bath. Wringing machine. Ironing and drying-room. Hot air machine. Washing-room.
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Reference
Wellcome Collection 35632i
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Location Status Access Closed stores