The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . ed by Mr. Baly. No 1. is the elevation of the Westminster Parochial Establishment, the most recentlyerected. Its style is plain and bold; simple, but conveying the idea of ipublic building er
The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . ed by Mr. Baly. No 1. is the elevation of the Westminster Parochial Establishment, the most recentlyerected. Its style is plain and bold; simple, but conveying the idea of ipublic building erected with a view to durability and utility. It contains64 Baths and 60 Wash-tubs, and 2 Plunge Baths; and, including the purichase of the site, will cost 13,000£. No. 2 is a view of a woman at a wash-tub; and of a woman, having washed heclothes, hanging them up to dry. No. 3 and No. 3 *, showing the linen in the drying chamber, heated by hot-watepipes, immediately above the wash-tub, as well as a woman hanging up fodrying previous to sending them to the drying chamber, as at St. Martins No. 4. Section through the ironing chambers. No. 5 is the general ground plan of the Westminster establishment:— A. The boiler room, where the water is heated for the baths and chimney and the ventilating flues, which carry off the vapour and forair from the bath rooms. M. BATHS AND WASHHOUSES 259. ? 11111 ? <} b and 0. The second-class men and womens waiting rooms and baths. d. The first-class mens baths and waiting room. The first-class womens baths are in an adjoining house, and not shown on this The first-class plunge bath and dressing The second-class plunge bath and dressing rooms. The baths will contain respectively 20,000 and 40,000 gals, of water, will be 3± ft. deep at one end, gradually increasing to the depth of 5 ft. at the and 1 are the washing tub and boiling tub, for the women washing, and are supplied with cold and hot water, an
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