Health Hydro

Health Hydro is a Grade II* Listed building in Milton Road, Swindon, in the United Kingdom. During its lifetime it has housed large and small swimming pools, a dispensary, medical facilities, wash baths and Victorian Turkish baths. It was built in 1891–2 by the Great Western Railway Medical Fund Society (MFS), aided financially and in kind by the company, and named the GWR Medical Fund Society Baths and Dispensary. It housed purpose-designed rooms and facilities enabling qualified staff to contribute to the medical provision offered by the MFS for the workers in the nearby railway works, and their families. The building has gone through a series of phases: the whole building being run by the MFS, with both baths and medical provision (1892–1947) the baths being run by the local council, and the medical facilities run by the National Health Service as the NHS Health Centre (1947–1986) the whole building being run by the council, with the Natural Health Clinic occupying what had been the NHS Health Centre (1986–2014) the whole building being leased by the council to Greenwich Leisure Ltd, who operate it under the trading name 'Better '(2014 to date) The name 'Health Hydro' was adopted in 1986 by Thamesdown Borough Council and superseded the NHS Health Centre and Milton Road Baths (1947–86), and before that, the MFS Baths and Dispensary (1892–1947).