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A 120-year-old listed public building can be modified highly successfully to meet modern requirements, as Camberwell Leisure Centre demonstrates, says James Pringle
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attractive Camberwell Leisure Centre. It is hard to imagine that this fun place had its origins in leg-
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islation calling for improved public hygiene after 19th century cholera epidemics. The local authority established wash- houses and baths in Camberwell, Dulwich and Peckham.
orget faded grandeur. A feature of south-east London since Victorian times, Camberwell Baths has under- gone an extensive makeover and re-emerged as the
The Dulwich building opened in 1891, followed the next
year by Camberwell. Both were the work of the same archi- tect, and their reinvigoration has also been devised by a single firm: Watkins Gray International LLP. Lead designer Roy Caddick takes up the story: “The main
idea was bath houses and laundries, but the addition of pool facilities was far-sighted in terms of public wellbeing and fit- ness. That’s the element that has grown into what we have
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