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12th September 2023

Municipal washhouses, known as 'steamies' in Scotland, were once vital places for doing domestic laundry and integral to many women's lives. In Glasgow alone, there were as many twenty steamies; this one is in Govanhill Public Baths (1917, Category B listed) which in 2017 had a 'Talk of the Steamie' exhibition. It, too, is closed for refurbishment but has huge local support;  the 'Save Our Pool' protest in 2001 was the longest occupation of a public building in the UK.

 

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