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.
9. Changing times
The rear of Glossop Road Baths, as seen from the newly-demolished Notre Dame School site, May 1992
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