Attercliffe Swimming Baths and the Attercliffe Library

[Guest detrius]

Hi

Looking for the history of the Attercliffe Baths and the Attercliffe (Free)Library.

The only info i can find id what is written on the plaques outside.

Attercliffe Library - Opened in 1894 in answer to local public demand and closed in 1986.As well as lending books it was one of the first places in Sheffield to display lists of job vacancies

Attercliffe Baths - Built in 1879,provided both swimming and washing facilities for the area at a time when bathrooms at home were unknown.This was also Attercliffes speakers corner,especially 1900-1939.

Any more info especially about the speakers corner please reply.

Thanks

Andy M

[Guest detrius]

Hi

Looking for the history of the Attercliffe Baths and the Attercliffe (Free)Library.

The only info i can find id what is written on the plaques outside.

Attercliffe Library - Opened in 1894 in answer to local public demand and closed in 1986.As well as lending books it was one of the first places in Sheffield to display lists of job vacancies

Attercliffe Baths - Built in 1879,provided both swimming and washing facilities for the area at a time when bathrooms at home were unknown.This was also Attercliffes speakers corner,especially 1900-1939.

Any more info especially about the speakers corner please reply.

Thanks

Andy M

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[Sheffield History]

Anyone got any other photos of the baths or the library?

[Gamal]

On 15/06/2020 at 13:50, Sheffield History said:

Anyone got any other photos of the baths or the library?

Don't have any old ones. 

Took these earlier today of Attercliffe library. 

[Ponytail]

Interior of Attercliffe Road Swimming Baths, Nos. 870 - 872 Attercliffe Road.

13th February 1985. 

Looking towards the shallow end. s22777

Deep end and changing cubicles. s27991

 

Staircase showing Sheffield Coat of Arms. 

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s27996&pos=23&action=zoom&id=30730

Staircase. 

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s22780&pos=12&action=zoom&id=25368

View from the Balcony. 

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s22779&pos=11&action=zoom&id=25367

Shallow end and changing cubicles. 

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s27992&pos=19&action=zoom&id=30726

Ladies Slipper Baths. 

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s22781&pos=13&action=zoom&id=25369

Ladies toilets and showers, used to be the old school rooms. 

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s22782&pos=14&action=zoom&id=25370

Bells for cubicle use at Attercliffe Road swimming baths. 

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s31264&pos=33&action=zoom&id=64410

Fire escape. 

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s27997&pos=24&action=zoom&id=30731

The Boiler.

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s22778&pos=10&action=zoom&id=25366

 

Advertisement poster for Attercliffe Swimming Club 31st Annual Swimming Gala at Attercliffe Baths. September 1909.

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc00468&pos=40&action=zoom&id=56561

 

River Don History Trail Plaque marking the site of Attercliffe Road Baths. 

Blue Plaque reads:

Attercliffe Baths, Attercliffe Road. Attercliffe Baths, built in 1879, provided both swimming and washing facilities for the area at a time when bathrooms at home were unknown. This was also Attercliffe's speakers corner, especially 1900 - 1939.

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;t10449&pos=6&action=zoom&id=91410

 

[Ponytail]

Former Attercliffe Branch Library, built 1894, Leeds Road used as an Archive Store. 13th February 1985.s27044

s27045

 

[Ponytail]

Attercliffe Baths where I learned to swim. Taken by a double decker bus from Hatfield House Lane Junior School, we all boarded the bus with our cossies wrapped in a towel. 

Remember the very first time, entering the building we had to pass by the Slipper Baths where those not so fortunate to have a bathroom in their house went for a proper bath. As we passed we could hear singing and splashing coming from the locked door, we all giggled. 

Next was the introduction to swimming by a woman dressed in baggy tracksuit bottoms who shouted like an Army sergeant, she'd have a pole positioned just out of reach as you tried to achieve your first 25 yard swim for a certificate. Remember trying to reach for the pole as I struggled only for it to be snatched out of reach. "No!!" she bellowed. 

She didn't stand for any nonsense, from anyone. A very formidable lady. 

[Ponytail]

Attercliffe Public Baths Local Heritage List.

https://local-heritage-list.org.uk/south-yorkshire/asset/5699#:~:text=Former Public Baths on Attercliffe,%2C especially 1900-1939".

Including a brief history and photographs. 

 

[Ponytail]

My first Library, Mike Higginbottom. 

Attercliffe Library, Leeds Road. 

https://www.mikehigginbottominterestingtimes.co.uk/?p=7440