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Former Public Baths
Key Words :- baths
Viewing the Site :- The boxing club can be viewed with appointment. The residential units are private.
Address :- 116 Cheshire Street, Bethnal Green, London, Greater London, E2 6JD
Grid Ref :- TQ 3434 8236
Co-ordinates :- Lat 51.524184 , Long -0.064962
Local Authority :- Tower Hamlets London Borough Council
Pre 1974 County :- Greater London Council
Site Status :- Listed - Grade II
Historic England List No :- 1357782,
Site Dates :- 1899 -
Description and History of Site :-
Cheshire St Baths, 1899, first built under Baths & Wash-houses Act. Plant included two steam engines (see LIA No. 1, 1979, p8), twin Galloway boilers and some early washing machines, 1928.
Designed by architect R. Stephen Ayling, and unusually allowing for pram parking - as this was typically the method washers used for transporting their linen (see London Museum listing for public baths sign ref: 74.96/2).
Following closure as a public utility in 1970, the site became home of the Repton Boxing Club, London's oldest boxing gym.
Between 2000 and 2001, the site was further developed to provide gated private apartments surrounding a central courtyard, leaving the boxing club to occupy a corner of the original site.
Further Reading and References :-
Ashdown, John; Bussell, Michael; Carter, Paul. 'A Survey of Industrial Monuments of Greater London'. Thames Basin Archaeological Observers' Group, 1969
http://www.glias.org.uk/journals/1-a.pdf
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Grid Ref :- TQ 3434 8236
Co-ordinates :- Lat 51.524184 , Long -0.064962
Local Authority :- Tower Hamlets London Borough Council
Pre 1974 County :- Greater London Council
Site Status :- Listed - Grade II
Historic England List No :- 1357782,
Site Dates :- 1899 -
Cheshire St Baths, 1899, first built under Baths & Wash-houses Act. Plant included two steam engines (see LIA No. 1, 1979, p8), twin Galloway boilers and some early washing machines, 1928.
Designed by architect R. Stephen Ayling, and unusually allowing for pram parking - as this was typically the method washers used for transporting their linen (see London Museum listing for public baths sign ref: 74.96/2).
Following closure as a public utility in 1970, the site became home of the Repton Boxing Club, London's oldest boxing gym.
Between 2000 and 2001, the site was further developed to provide gated private apartments surrounding a central courtyard, leaving the boxing club to occupy a corner of the original site.
Ashdown, John; Bussell, Michael; Carter, Paul. 'A Survey of Industrial Monuments of Greater London'. Thames Basin Archaeological Observers' Group, 1969
http://www.glias.org.uk/journals/1-a.pdf
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