More Info →Ladies’ Rest Room, The Square

Description

Two unidentified engineers in the City Engineer’s Office are credited with the actual design of this building. Erected in brick and concrete with the exterior plastered in a “delicate shade of green,” the Art Deco style building has a band of bas relief ornamentation that then provided contrasts in brown and beige to “harmonise with the surrounding plantation.” The building’s semi-circular windows, which were intended to admit maximum light, and its interior decoration, also reflected its Art Deco style.

Messrs A.W. Wood & Sons erected the building at a cost of £1,683, and the completed cost (including furnishings) was £1,859. It opened to the public on 21st December 1936. It contained a comfortable rest room for mothers and children complete with water and milk heating facilities, a waiting room, and a lavatory with six cubicles. Two private ‘toilet rooms’ (for changing clothing, freshening up, etc.) were also present, along with the attendants’ room.

Identification

Object type

Image

Relation

IMCA Digital Archive

Date

June 2020

Digitisation ID

2020BD_IMCA-DigitalMaster_031929

Format

Born Digital