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Neatly, this means that I can continue editing and preview until ready or cancel while countdown in progress. The countdown is set to save at 0 seconds and the nearest 5 minute multiple. This edit should save at exactly 17:30 GMT. Fæ (talk) 16:30, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Wash houses

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Sanitas Sanitatum et omnia Sanitas, Richard Metcalfe, v.1, 1877, Co-operative printing company. http://www.archive.org/stream/sanitassanitatu00metcgoog#page/n24/mode/2up

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It is to the Corporation of Liverpool that the honour belongs of having taken the first step in this branch of sanitary reform. The first Public Baths and Washhouses set on foot in this country were those of Liverpool, the original cost being defrayed by money raised upron rates, and that borough now possesses several of these bathing establishments, including washhouses.

St. George's Pier Head baths were opened as long ago as 1828, but only supplied with salt-water. This was the first indication of a desire on the part of parochial authorities to supply, and on the part of the public to use, a popular means of ablution. The original cost of the building was £24,772. No doubt it was partly owing to the appreciation shown by the people that the same Corporation were induced, some twenty-one years later, to erect another bathing establishment in Frederick Street provided with fresh water. This was in the year 1842, and owes its origin chiefly to that friend of the poor, the late William Rathbone, whose son is now one of the members for the borough. It may be said that the Baths and Washhouses Movement, so far as the provision of warm baths are concerned, dates from the opening of the establishment in Frederick Street, as in the former place there were no baths for cleansing purposes.

In 1849 the Corporation of Liverpool again increased their bathing and washing accommodation by the erection of two new establishments - one in Paul Street and the other in Cornwallis Street. The latter is undoubtedly the finest of its kind in Liverpool. These were designed on a much larger scale than those in Frederick Street and contained all the more modern improvements which practical experience had suggested; in fact, so perfect were they considered that, I believe, there have been but few additional improvements in those of more recent erection.

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On page 7 there is a quotation from the Daily News August 1873 which makes it clear that Goulston Square Baths were the first London public baths built. The Prince consort laid the foundation stone (1852?). On page 8 there is a quote from H.M. Clifford's letter to the Times (recently, so presumably 1877?) where the Vestry of Whitechapel had raised £4,671 to reopen the Goulston Square, Whitechapel, public baths.

The building is now the Women's Library owned by the London Metropolitan University.[1]

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Summary of accounts for St. Marylebone baths on Marylebone Road. There were 4 swimming baths, 24 1st & 57 2nd class men's baths, 12 1st & 14 2nd women's baths. The baths opened on Dec 18th 1849.

"This was the first bath opened in London erected under the Act, and it may be regarded as the parent or medel institution, as but little deviation has been made from its plans and arrangements by the projectors of other baths and washhouses in the metropolis. Being the first, it had necessarily many difficulties to pass through; nevertheless, it hasbeen very successful in a pecunaiary point of view, which may in measure be attributed to the excellent management of the superintendent, who has been connected with it since its commencement."

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St. James, Westminster. Baths opened June 1852. Building costs 21,000.

"The baths comprise 25 first and 46 second-class men's baths, 15 first and 18 second-class women's baths, and a swimming bath 42 by 38 feet, 84 washing tubs, drying and ironing rooms."

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From a table of costs

  • Year, Place, Original cost
  • 1849 Marylebone £23,671
  • 1851 St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster £15,000
  • 1852 St. James', Westminster £21,000
  • 1852 Poplar £11,500
  • 1854 St. Giles and St. George, Bloomsbury £20,857
  • 1854 Bermondsey £16,500
  • 1855 St. George, Hanover Square £33,861
  • 1856 St. Martin's in the Fields £21,000
  • 1868 St. Pancras £23,000
  • 1874 Paddington £48,000

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Liverpool opening dates

  • Pier Head 1828
  • Cornwallis Street May, 1851
  • Margaret Street. June 13, 1863 and the extension in 1868.
  • Paul Street. November 1846.
  • Steble Street. April 1874.
  • Frederick Street. 1842. Rebuilt 1854.

Other sources

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  • Campbell, Agnes (1918), Report on public baths and wash-houses in the United Kingdom, Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, OCLC 83579947
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/modernbathsandb00unkngoog#page/n54/mode/2up
  • http://www.archive.org/details/ourexemplarspoo00exemgoog Our exemplars poor and rich
  • Williams, Marilyn T. (1991), Washing "the great unwashed": public baths in urban America, 1840-1920, Ohio State University Press, ISBN 9780814205372

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