After the first one opened on London Road in 1876, public bath and wash houses rapidly became a key part of life in Glasgow, and by 1914, there were 26 of them spread right across the city.

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Indeed, if you look at the rear of the Maryhill Leisure centre, you can still see the original facade and the inscribed ghost sign identifying its origin as a bath house.

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These are (top left to bottom right) the Whitevale Baths, the Whiteinch Baths, the Parkhead Batha, the North Woodside Baths, the Maryhill Baths and the Govanhill Baths.

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As you can see from these photos, each had its own distinctive appearance, making them a key architectural, as well as social, feature in many local neighbourhoods.

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It's called Bath Street because it was here that the city's first indoor public bath house was opened by a local textile merchant and entrepreneur William Harley in the early 1800s.

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