Steam, Soap and Suds: A Dip Into Whitechapel Washhouse
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These days, we tend to take bathing and laundry facilities for granted. But when the Goulston Square Bath and Washhouse opened in 1847, it radically improved Whitechapel amenities and sanitation.
Inside a Victorian washhouse
The Russian Vapour Baths on Brick Lane offered “invaluable relief for rheumatism, gout, sciatica, lumbago and allied complaints”
East London Observer, 11 December 1875