Abstract
Public bathing facilities were one of the many new urban monument types of the Industrial Revolution. This paper examines the changing role, function and provision of baths and swimming pools from the Victorians to the post-war consensus of the 1950s and 1960s. It details changing rationales from cleansing, through preparation for war to post-war recreational use. It places these changes within the archaeological and historical record, utilising examples from across the United Kingdom, and explores how such buildings as well as being functional were simultaneously physical manifestations of the municipal grandeur and pride of the new industrial cities.
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