Ladies'
day in the tepidarium:
Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Australia, 1862
< Image: Illustrated Melbourne post
(18 Oct 1862)
The tepidarium in the Lonsdale Street Turkish baths, Melbourne, Australia, seems almost to be modelled on the one at Ben-Rhydding.
The illustration from a local newspaper is intended to show potential bathers that the ambience within is relaxed, the women apparently without clothes and loosely wrapped in towels.
This page enlarges an image or adds to the information found below:
Urquhart and the London Hammam. Part 1: introduction
Women and the Victorian Turkish bath. Part 1: introduction
Victorian Turkish Baths: their origin, development, and gradual decline
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