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The public laundry is also on the ground floor level, and contains 50 washing
compartments and 50 steam drying horses, and other necessary fittings for ironing
and mangling. The public entrance to this department is from Bowling Green Walk,
and it is practically completely separated from the baths portion of the establishment.
Ample accommodation is provided in the basement for the storage of the movable
floors and platforms when these are not required during the bathing season.
The buildings have frontages to three separate streets, viz., Pitfield Street,
Coronet Street and Bowling Green Walk, the first-named being the main front,
which has been designed to group with the adjoining Free Library. The whole of
the elevations are faced with best red-facing bricks with buff terra-cotta dressings
supplied by the Burmantofts Company, and the roofs are covered with red tiles.
In the interior of the building glazed bricks and tiles have been very largely used,
and the woodwork in the main corridors and large swimming bath is of teak. The
whole of the floors and flat roofs are of fireproof construction, and the roofs over the
swimming baths, laundry, etc., are constructed with wrought iron principals.
CLERK OF WORKS.
In consequence of the unsatisfactory conduct of the officer at first appointed
as Clerk of Works, the Committee found it necessary to consider the matter in
relation to his position, and as a result he was summarily dismissed, and Mr. W. C.
Gardner, who had superintended the erection of the buildings and plant at the lighting
station, was appointed to the position at a salary at the rate of £4 4s. Od. a week, which
appointment was subsequently confirmed by the Vestry.
EXTRA WORKS.
The following are the principal additions to the original specification for the
orection of Baths and Washhouses which have been decided upon by the Baths
Committee up to date, viz.:—
Additional depth of subways in front block.
Substitution of marble divisions in lieu of slate in 1st class private baths.
Glazed brick facing to all private baths, 2nd class swimming bath, staircases,
corridors, w.c.'s, and public laundry, &c., in lieu of plastering.
Substitution of rubber and gauged arches oxternally in lieu of axed arches.
Iron and teak doors to public hall to comply with L.C.C. regulations.
Extra involved in gallery to 1st class swimming bath for similar reason.
Do. in roof over do., in consequence of adoption of amended design.
Do. by using "collapsible " dressing boxes in 1st class bath.
Re arrangement of stairs to gallery in Coronet Street, by order of the L.C.C.
Sundry small alterations in the design of the Pitfield Street front.
Extra involved in lowering basement floor, in ordor to form boiler house.