April 2015 archive

Wedlake Street Baths

Warm bath and wash houses, available for public use in Britain, were first established in Liverpool in 1842. The popularity of wash-houses had been spurred by the newspaper interest in Kitty Wilkinson, an Irish immigrant who became known as the Saint of the Slums. In 1832, during a cholera epidemic, Wilkinson took the initiative to …

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