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Victoria Street entrance to the Glossop Road baths in Sheffield. Glossop Road Baths originally housed a swimming pool and Turkish baths. The first public baths in the city of Sheffield were opened on the site in 1836, following the cholera epidemic of 1832. The complex was rebuilt from 1877 to 1879 to a design by E. M. Gibbs, including an indoor swimming pool, a Turkish bath suite and a hairdresser. In 1898, the complex was bought by the city council and a ladies' bath was added. The facade was rebuilt in 1908-1910 by Arthur Nunweek. After a period of decline at the end of the 20th century and later closure of the baths, the building was largely converted to residential accommodation, with a Wetherspoons bar called "The Swim Inn" (now closed) in the former main swimming pool area. The Turkish baths were fully modernised and reopened as Spa 1877 in 2004, but closed again in 2019.

Disused baths at site of Risehow Colliery, Flimby, which closed in 1966. This was one of the most northerly pits in the West Cumbria coalfield.

Plaque on the end wall of the former baths at Gibfield Colliery. Coal owners Fletcher Burrows & Co Ltd erected the first purpose built colliery bath house in Britain at Gibfield Colliery in 1913 after a trial of an adapted building at their Howe Bridge Colliery. The colliery closed in 1963 but the building survives as a car repair and maintenance garage.

Mixed offerings advertised in the baths building at Caphouse Colliery.

Coal owners Fletcher Burrows & Co Ltd erected the first purpose built colliery bath house in Britain at Gibfield Colliery in 1913 after a trial of an adapted building at their Howe Bridge Colliery. The colliery closed in 1963 but the building survives as a car repair and maintenance garage. The company had sent a delegation to visit pithead baths in Belgium and France, and their new facilities were based closely on continental practice. There was a large central dressing hall with showers in side aisles. Clothes could be attached to cords and hauled up to the ceiling and secured in place by padlocks. The photograph (a rather dodgy stitch) shows the interior of the building and close examination of the framework in the roof reveals that the pulleys over which the cords ran are still in situ.

In the baths building at Caphouse Colliery.

Erected in 1938, and seemingly unaltered since then, the pithead baths at Caphouse Colliery are now one of the excellent features of the English National Coal Mining Museum.