A FORMER computer repair shop that's full of history could be turned into a spa.

Plans to convert the old Computer Solutions in Charles Street have been submitted to Worcester City Council.

According to planning documents, the spa would offer customers the use of infrared saunas.

Electronic massage chairs could be introduced at a later date.

The shop unit occupies part of a Victorian building originally built for the inventor John James Cam, who made motorcycles and components for cars.

It became known as the Cam Engineering Building and a blue plaque celebrating Cam can still be seen on the front of the building.

The city council’s conservation officer Dr Paul Collins, in his response to the planning proposal, said: “After Cam’s time the building has enjoyed various commercial and industrial uses including as a food store, electrical wholesalers, and a light engineering works.”

The building was converted into four shops in the early 1990s.

Dr Collins said his assessment was that: “The proposed change of use will only involve alterations to the interior of the application site, including some minor modifications to fabric added in the early 1990s.!

This includes the creation of “six open topped cubicles”.

“It is considered that this proposal will have a neutral impact upon the conservation area.”

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John James Cam was born in The Shambles and joined his father’s manufacturing and engineering business in the early 1870s.

It was around the turn of the century that he opened his workshop in Charles Street and developed key components including the carburettor, radiator and handlebar controls.

A keen photographer, he was a founder member of Worcestershire Camera Club and Worcestershire Photographic Survey Society.

He was a founder member of city cycling groups including Worcester Tricycle Club.

A book telling the story of his life and containing more than 180 of his pictures of life in Victorian Worcester was published last year.