The drying racks at Whiteinch Wash-house photographed by Alf Daniel in the 1950s.
Whiteinch Baths and Wash-house was built in the 1920s by Glasgow Corporation at a cost of £67,000. There were two swimming pools, sixteen baths for women and thirty-one baths for men and a Turkish bath. The "steamie" provided forty-three washing stalls and sixteen washing machines, as well as these racks for drying wet clothes.
Reference: 1040.88.135
Reproduced with the permission of Glasgow City Council, Glasgow Museums
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drying racks, laundries, laundry, steamies, swimming pools, wash-houses, washing, Whiteinch Baths and Wash-house, women