The cooling-room at Glossop Road, Sheffield
< Photo: courtesy of Sheffield City Council
The baths were opened with separate cooling-rooms for smokers and non-smokers in November 1877 and remained in operation until they were closed, despite many protests from users, in 1990.
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Glossop Road Turkish Baths
The Victorian Turkish Bath Movement. Part 1: introduction
Urquhart and the London Hammam. Part 3: the class barrier
Victorian Turkish Baths: their origin, development, and gradual decline
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