The spa, based in the Turkish Baths, is the last surviving part of a public baths complex that was built in 1836 to give poor Sheffielders much-needed access to better hygiene, following the terrible cholera epidemic that killed 402 people.
The building housed two swimming pools and these are where many Sheffield schoolchildren had their swimming lessons.
5. Needing repairs
The mixed bathing pool at Glossop Road Swimming Baths, Sheffield - with a net slung underneath to catch falling pieces of the roof - in July 1969 Photo: .
6. Outside view
Glossop Road Swimming Baths, Sheffield, May 13, 1992 Photo: Julia Armstrong
7. Bubbly protesters
Protesters opposed to the closure of Glossop Road Turkish Baths, pictured in October 1989 Photo: Sheffield Newspapers
8. Save our Turkish!
Protesters on the Town Hall steps against the closure of Glossop Road Turkish Baths - October 1989 Photo: Sheffield Newspapers