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#OnThisDay—27 Jan in 1896—Public Baths, with a #TurkishBath department, were opened by #Burslem Corporation. 'Elegant Moorish doorways' separated the 2 hot rms, cooling & shampooing rms, Russian vapour bath—all wall tiled & with encaustic tiled floor—& plunge. A Turkish bath attendant was paid 27/- per wk, & a women's shampooer 5/- per day. A Turkish bath cost 1/-, or 6d. after 4.00 p.m.
Turkish baths appear in wks by T bather #arnoldbennett, gt chronicler of the Five Towns.
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#OnThisDay—26 January 1863—John Treble opened a #TurkishBath at 4 Mansion Terrace, St David's Hill, #Exeter, opposite the 'Blind Asylum'. Though 'replete with every essential', it was actually 6 months before showers were fitted.
Joseph Ball became the owner in 1872, and the baths closed briefly in 1880 shortly after his death. His wife Anne then continued them until her death in 1891. The Turkish baths had 2 hot rooms, a cooling-room, a shampooing room, dressing room, and showers.
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@HarrietRichardson @histodons For anyone wishing to find out more about the #TurkishBath at Lochhead Hydro mentioned in this interesting piece on hydros, there's an illustrated article at http://www.victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/AtoZEstab/Hydros/AbHydroLock/AbHydroLockEng.htm

#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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@Liz The Victorian #TurkishBath was always hot dry air. There may also have been a separate vapour/steam/Russian bath provided as an additional facility—like the sitz bath or the hot and cold (water) baths— but this was not part of the Turkish bath process.
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If you are into #queerhistory in #Victorian #London or the #Trollope short story The #TurkishBath, you might find of interest my illustrated piece on 'Sexual activity in the Jermyn Street Hammam in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: some problems arising from the use of fiction as a source of evidence in literary and historical studies'.
Last revised in 2019, It can be found at
http://www.victorianturkishbath.org/_3TOPICS/AtoZTopics/Social/GaySex/1IntroEng.htm

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#OnThisDay—14 Nov in 1859—the world's only #Victorian #TurkishBath to be owned by a Co-operative (#Coop) Society was opened, with the help of the Rochdale Pioneers and David Urquhart's Foreign Affairs Committees, at Church Lane, under the management of #secularist Joseph Jagger. http://www.victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/AtoZEstab/England/RochCo-op/RochCo-opEng.htm
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#OnThisDay—14 Nov in 1859—the world's only #Victorian #TurkishBath to be owned by a #Co-operative Society was opened, with the help of the Rochdale Pioneers and David Urquhart's Foreign Affairs Committees, at Church Lane, under the management of #secularist Joseph Jagger. http://www.victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/AtoZEstab/England/RochCo-op/RochCo-opEng.htm
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#OnThisDay—14 Nov in 1859—the world's only #Victorian #TurkishBath to be owned by a #Co-operative Society was opened, with the help of the Rochdale Pioneers and David Urquhart's Foreign Affairs Committees, at Church Lane, under the management of #secularist Joseph Jagger. http://www.victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/AtoZEstab/England/RochCo-op/RochCo-opEng.htm