Pictures

Information for the press: modern photographs are available in high resolution jpegs from poolmemories@yahoo.co.uk. For historic photographs contact Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre.

The site before the baths were built, before 1894

Images courtesy of Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre and used with permission. 080181/12

View from Prince of Wales Road, corner Willes Road

Above The building about 1901
Image courtesy of Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre and used with permission. 080181/11.


Above The building in 2005

Willes Pool

Above Willes Pool around 1901

Above Willes Pool around 1959

Above Willes Pool after 1960 refurbishment

Images courtesy of Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre and used with permission. 080191/14 (top) and LCP725.734.

Grafton Pool

Above Grafton Pool about 1901

Above Grafton Pool after 1960 refurbishment.
Images courtesy of Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre and used with permission. 080181/13 (top) and LCP725.734.

Changing rooms

Above The Grafton Hall, now the pool changing rooms, was also the Ladies Baths. Like the other pools, it could be covered over with a temporary floor to provide a community hall.

Above Changing rooms after the 1960s refurbishment. These have since been extensively altered: gone is the dropped ceiling, revealing the roof structure again, and gone are most of the cubicles.
Images courtesy of Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre and used with permission. LCP725.734.

Slipper baths

Above One of the original baths, with a teak rim around the tub. Just before the 1960 refurbishment.

Above Refurbished slipper bath, c. 1960.
Images courtesy of Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre and used with permission. LCP725.734.

The laundry

Above Drying racks, before 1950.

Above After refurbishment in 1960.
Images courtesy of Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre and used with permission. LCP725.734.

View from Prince of Wales Road, looking east

View from Grafton Road

Foundation stone

The text reads:

VESTRY OF ST PANCRAS LONDON

THIS FOUNDATION STONE

WAS LAID BY

EDWARD COX-SINCLAIR ESQRE J.P.

CHAIRMAN OF THE VESTRY

ON THE 17 MAY 1900

EDWARD MASON CLOSE )

GEORGE TAYOR ) CHURCHWARDENS

GEORGE BLOUNT, CHAIRMAN OF BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES COMMITTEE

WILLIAM EDWARD CATESBY, DEPUTY CHAIRMAN

T. W. ALDWINCKLE, R.I.B.A. ARCHITECT C. WALL, CONTRACTOR

C. H. F. BARRETT, VESTRY CLERK

Mens First Class Baths entrance

Mens Second Class Baths entrance

'Baths' lettering and demon

Historic photographs of Kentish Town Baths

There are historical pictures of Kentish Town Baths on the excellent website, Ten Generations. This site brings together material held in local collections to tell the stories of how our forebears lived their lives, the changes they will have seen, and some of the historical events they may have witnessed during the last 300 years. See www.tengenerations.org.uk, and search on St Pancras Baths.