Bootle Slipper Baths

The idea of not having a bathroom inside your house seems very strange to us now but for many in the Victorian time that was completely normal. There toilets were known as a ‘privy’.

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They would wash using a jug and bowl and small children would be washed in the sink. The same bar of soap would wash your clothes, body, hair and the floor!

For people without a bath at home you could go to the slipper baths. These were public baths!
You would pay a few pennies and be given a piece of hard soap and a towel and your own cubicle for a hot bath. These were still being used in Bootle until the war.