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Bradford Turkish Baths Company Limited

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Victorian Turkish Baths: their origin, development, and gradual decline

Bradford Turkish Baths Company Limited

Company baths:

BRADFORD: Sun Bridge Road

Please note that, as handwriting is often unclear, names of shareholders are indicative only. When accuracy is important, visitors should consult the original documents;
those with PRO references will be found at The National Archives (Public Record Office, Kew)

There was some interest in setting up a Turkish bath company in Bradford at least as early as 1885. A Mr R M Macmaster wrote a letter to the editor of a swimming magazine seeking support for a limited company to provide swimming and Turkish baths in the town. But it seems that another eight years were to pass before such a company was actually set up.

PRO: BT31 5483/37950 (All information is taken from this file unless specifically footnoted)

1893 Memorandum of Association: 11 January

Objects include: to be proprietors of Turkish and other Baths and to carry out 'an agreement dated 22nd day of December, 1892, and made between Charles Gott of the one part and Frederick Bearland, on behalf of the Company herein mentioned, of the other part (being an agreement for a lease of a portion of the basement of the Alexandra Hotel, Bradford, with power to adapt the same for the purposes of Turkish and other Baths).'

Subscribers:

Armitage, George (Dir) (Stuff merchant)

Bearman, Frederick (Agent)

Hoffman, Alfred (Merchant)

Hoffman, Frank (Dir) (Merchant)

Ibbotson, Thomas (Dir) (Lithographer)

Lupton, William C (Dir) (Wine merchant)

Milnes, Edward (Stuff merchant)

and three other directors

Capital: £3,000 divided into 600 shares of £5

Registered Office: Iregate Chambers (13 May)

Secretary: Frederick Bearland (29 May)

Average number of shareholders: 12 with one share each

1895 Registered Office: Beckett's Bank Chambers (13 May)

1897 Shareholders include:

Craig, Thomas (40 shares)

Wood, John (40 shares)

1898 Extraordinary Meeting to agree winding up and appoint liquidator (18 March)

1901 Winding up meeting (14 October)

1902 Lodged (15 July)

This page last updated 18 October 2009

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