Victorian Turkish Baths Picture of the Month for June 2004
Rate card for J H Faulkner's hotels
and Turkish baths in London and Hastings
< Outside of Faulkner's double sided folded rate card; size folded 73x115mm. See larger images below.
< Front of rate card
< Inside left hand page of rate card
< Inside right hand page of rate card
< Back of rate card
The card was published some time between 1882 and 1889 while Jonathan Hurn Faulkner had the lease of the White Rock Turkish Baths in Hastings.
In his book In the footsteps of Sherlock Holmes,1 Michael Harrison suggested that Holmes popped in to Faulkner's Villiers Street hotel from time to time for a Turkish bath. But this was rather more of a Watsonian than a Sherlockian deduction for, as his card shows, Faulkner's only London Turkish bath at this time was in Newgate Street.
This item is from the collection of the Victorian Turkish Baths Project
See also: Tin lucifer box advertising Faulkner's Turkish baths and hotels
Comments and queries are most welcome and can be sent to:
malcolm@victorianturkishbath.org