Women's cooling-room in Earls Court Gardens
< James, A R Why go away for a cure? (The Hydro,
c.1927)
One of the ladies’ cooling-rooms in James's Hydro in Earl's Court Gardens, London.
The illustration is from a booklet published by the baths some time around the middle of the 1920s. The room it describes, stated to be 20 ft. x 75 ft., would not have changed much in appearance since it was originally fitted out.
It is instructive to compare this with the picture (from the same booklet) of the men's cooling-room.
This item is from the collection of the Victorian Turkish Baths Project
This page enlarges an image or adds to the information found below:
London's first Victorian Turkish bath. Part 5: London women and the bath
Women and the Victorian Turkish bath. Part 3: Women and the first baths
Victorian Turkish Baths: their origin, development, and gradual decline
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