#OnThisDay—26 December 1860— less than six months after London's first Victorian #TurkishBath opened in Bell Street, near Marble Arch, fixture merchant William Turner set one up at 17 Goswell Road to be managed by his son-in-law Samuel Curry. (More info at http://www.victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/AtoZEstab/London/Goswell1/Goswell1Eng.htm.)
Small, but successful, it moved down the road to No.282 to expand and be closer to the centre, the following year. The larger baths remained open till just before World War II.
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Harry Holt was born in Clerkenwell on Tuesday 17th May 1791, the 4th of an eventual 9 children. His father was a Member and Division Host of the London Corresponding Society and his mother was a daughter of a Tackle-House Porter

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