Description:
The first baths and wash-houses in Nottingham were constructed at the present Gedling Street / Bath Street site by Dennett of Nottingham, under the direction of Corporation surveyor H Moses Wood, and opened to the public on 16 December 1850.
Wash-houses were added in 1926, with further building work along the Bath Street elevation bearing the name of T Wallis Gordon, by then City Engineer.
The General Inclosures Act of 1845 was necessitated by the appalling housing conditions prevailing in Nottingham, whose slums - created by such a density of population in such a small space - have often been described by social historians as the worst in the world at the time.
Information taken from www.savevictoriabaths.org.uk