Title

Hornsey Road Baths, Hornsey Road, Finsbury Park, Islington, Greater London Authority, 2012. Creator: Simon Inglis.

Caption

Hornsey Road Baths, Hornsey Road, Finsbury Park, Islington, Greater London Authority, 2012. The entrance block of the former Hornsey Road Baths, Islington, seen from the south at dusk, showing the illuminated neon name sign and figure of a diving woman on the south elevation. The Hornsey Road Baths were built in 1892 and closed in 1991. The swimming pools were demolished and the site redeveloped as Tiltman Place, with blocks of apartments. The entrance block (or gatehouse) and laundry buildings were converted into apartments known as The Gatehouse. The neon sign of a diving woman on the south elevation is one of 12 signs to be commissioned for baths in London in the 1930s; it is the sole surviving example.

Date

2012

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Reference

HRM23A02_292

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

21,1Mb (2,3Mb) / 7,8in x 10,5in / 2352 x 3136 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors leisure road building London England female women woman people architecture swimming country sign bathing baths swimming pool neon sign evening dusk British English color twilight diving diver divers entrance location Victorian century Britain thirties public baths apartment block swimming baths 21st century time of day Colour Converted 19th century 1930s 20th century nineteenth century Islington TGN outside photograph Listed Building Finsbury Park Grade II 2010s Historic England 19th-century way in La soiree Simon Inglis Inglis Simon Hornsey Road Hornsey Road Baths Alfred Hessell Tiltman Tiltman Alfred Hessell