Building Name

New Pithead Baths: Coventry Colliery Keresley Coventry

Date
1934 - 1935
District/Town
Keresley, Coventry
County/Country
Warwickshire, England
Client
Miners’ Welfare Commission
Work
New Build

At the Pithead of Coventry Colliery, Warwickshire, a fine modern building houses the baths which are a feature of the improved conditions of an up-to-date coal mine. The pithead baths at Coventry Colliery accommodate 1,890 men and cost £14,200 to build. Miners coming off duty undress at one side of the baths and put on their ordinary clothes at the other side, so that the dirt of the mine is left completely behind. Every man has two lockers, one for his pit clothes and one for his ordinary clothes. [Wonders of World Engineering 18 May 1937 page 373].

Opened        15 June 1935

Reference    W S Hattrell and Partners office records