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Description: | The first baths and wash-houses in Nottingham were constructed at the present Gedling Street / Bath Street site by Dennett of Nottingham, under the direction of Corporation surveyor H Moses Wood, and opened to the public on 16 December 1850. Wash-houses were added in 1926, with further building work along the Bath Street elevation bearing the name of T Wallis Gordon, by then City Engineer. The General Inclosures Act of 1845 was necessitated by the appalling housing conditions prevailing in Nottingham, whose slums - created by such a density of population in such a small space - have often been described by social historians as the worst in the world at the time. Information taken from www.savevictoriabaths.org.uk | Format: | JPEG/IMAGE | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | North East Midland Photographic Record | Source: | Picture the Past OAI feed | Creator: | Shaw, N | Identifier: | http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/fronten... | Language: | EN-GB | Format: | JPEG/IMAGE | Go to resource |
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