Bartholomew's Turkish Baths, 23 Leicester Square c.1887

Bartholomew, a farm labourer's son who became Secretary of the Bristol Foreign Affairs Committee, was one of the most successful of Urquhart's followers. He opened his first Turkish bath in Bristol in 1859 and when he died, in 1889, he left the largest chain of Turkish baths in the country, with an establishment in each of eight cities.

The Saracenic style building immediately to the right of the baths is the Alhambra Theatre

< An Illustrated guide to the  Turkish baths, medicated and  other baths… / Charles Bartholomew. — London : Marshall Bros, 1887. — p.15

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