New/ Renovated Communal Showers

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Communal showers have always been a love of mine. Not (mainly) in a sexual sense, but more in the camaraderie they provide. I played sport in my late teens and early 20s and the experience of showering with my teammates built our team-spirit, confidence and made the experience much more fun.

It seems nowadays though that they are disappearing off the face of the planet in the west. In locker rooms in schools, colleges, gyms and athletic centers across the country communal showers are being renovated to become stalls often with manky shower curtains (Honestly why curtains?! I have a glass door in my own home and the material touching me makes me want to vomit). My local municipal pool recently was fully renovated and the old men's/ women's locker rooms were combined into an all-cubicle unisex changing village and I don't think that's that unusual.

I was recently surprised to see that Bradley still produce their full range of communal showers including their famous column style. I didn't realise there'd much demand.
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So does anyone have any information on new locker rooms at schools/ colleges/ universities/ swimming pools/ gyms that have communal showers or of renovated facilities that have retained their communal showers?
 
This is Alresford Golf Club which is fairly near to where I live. The shower room was renovated in early 2017.

You might wonder why there are two showers - one communal and one with private stalls. Well they decided the renovate the men's showers to be communal and women's to have stalls. Lucky for us guys eh?

I do wonder why they did it, though do find it quite hot. :p

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This is from the Village Gym in Maidstone, England. It was renovated in May 2018 so very recent. A nice reflective wall covering to check people out as well.

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The next is from the US. It's from the B R Ryall YMCA near Chicago. I'm not sure who uses which locker room there but their Twitter calls it their 'boys' locker room' and it was renovated over Christmas 2018.
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Nice to see locker rooms from not much more than 12 months ago being built with communal showers.
 
I was looking online and found another renovated locker room. And BOY! What a delightful shower setup it is. It is located at Yerba Buena High School and was renovated in summer 2012.

They certainly didn't renovate it to increase privacy for those showering. I love too how they chose to have Bradley column showers installed.

It seems people are buying them (Though I think Bradley would stop making them if there wasn't demand).

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Does anyone know of any other showers built or renovated with these types of showers - or any other communal actually?
 
Well they decided the renovate the men's showers to be communal and women's to have stalls. Lucky for us guys eh?

I do wonder why they did it, though do find it quite hot. :p

I think this is quite common in the UK. Municipal leisure centres in the UK nearly always have cubicle showers in the women's dryside changing room, but many still have communal showers in the men's dryside changing room. The swimming pool showers are nearly always in unisex changing villages though.
 
I think this is quite common in the UK. Municipal leisure centres in the UK nearly always have cubicle showers in the women's dryside changing room, but many still have communal showers in the men's dryside changing room. The swimming pool showers are nearly always in unisex changing villages though.

I wonder why that is the case. Planners must have thought/ maybe still think that men require less privacy when showering? I'd like to know more about this if anyone knows.
Maybe some links showing the female with stalls but male communal?

It actually reminds me of the when I first went to the men's changing room at my local swimming pool on my own as a kid at about 10. I'd only been with my mother and, probably because of my complaining and age, she let me into the men's. I remember looking all around the changing room for the cubicles to change (like in the women's) only to realise that there weren't any :joy:. As I said in the first post though, it's now been renovated and has a communal changing village.

Some pretty nice showers you've posted. Some of them are obviously for teams though like the Stanford one and the Glasgow one. Showers for team sports are generally always communal even now I thought.

I've been to my local DW Sports and it definitely has shower cubicles. I might ask for a tour at the other in my area though to check that one.
 
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Maybe some links showing the female with stalls but male communal?

Parklands Leisure Centre, Oadby, Leicestershire (after refurb in 2014)
Men's dryside:
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Women's dryside:
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The comments on the right side of the picture are from the Facebook page! Someone complained that the men's showers are communal but the women's are private. A staff member from the Leisure Centre replied that "The changing rooms have been designed to industry guidelines"