Sandwich board for the Savoy Turkish Baths:

a photograph and a caricature


        

Sandwich board man "Please, Father, may I have a bath?"

  
Turkish baths advertiser, taken in a street parallel to Savoy Hill looking up towards the Strand.

  
"Please, Father, may I have a bath?"
  
"Ah! My son, when I was your age, I too was romantic." 

                                   
 

Turkish baths advertiser. — London : Rotary Photographic Co, c.1913. — (London life series)

 

"Please, Father…" / Bert Thomas. — London : Lawrence and Jellicoe, c.1915. — (London opinion series)
     Cartoon, originally published in London opinion.
                  

< From a postcard in the collection of the Victorian Turkish Bath Project

 

< From a postcard in the collection of the Victorian Turkish Bath Project

    
The sandwich board man advertising the Savoy Turkish Bath was  a character well-recognised by Londoners, as is demonstrated by his inclusion in a cartoon in London opinion, later republished as a comic postcard.
         


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Introduction. Part 1: What is a Turkish bath?

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