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High Street Turkish Bath Company Limited

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

High Street Turkish Bath Company Limited

Company baths:

BIRMINGHAM: 74 High Street

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)

PRO: BT31 857/818C (All information is taken from this file unless specifically footnoted)

1878 Memorandum of Association: 20 April

Objects include: to operate Turkish Baths in Birmingham

Capital: £10,000 divided into 1,000 shares of £10

1879 Registered Office: 74 High Street (23 April)
Secretary: Thomas Purden
Subscribers:
Baker, Charles (5 shares)
Critchley (50 shares) Ironfounder
Hassall, Henry Thomas (20 shares) Hot water engineer
Parkes, Thomas (5 shares)
Pearson, Joseph (10 shares)
Purdon, Thomas (5 shares) Accountant
Sibley (10 shares) Manufacturer
Simkin, Edward W (50 shares)
Stokes, S (15 shares)
Webster, Frederick (20 shares)
Webster, Henry (50 shares)
Wiley, William (10 shares) Manufacturer
Average number of shareholders: c.35 (14 June)

1880 Average number of shareholders: c.35 (18 April)

1881 Registered Office: 7 Waterloo Street (14 October)

1882 Registered Office: 39 Bennett Hill (18 April)
Undated letter: to the Registrar of Companies:
'...Company has not carried on business since 1882 in which year the mortgagee of the Company's premises entered into possession in consequence of the non-payment by the Company of principal and interest due to him.'

1886 No returns were filed between the years 1882-86
Dissolved under Clause 7(4): 3 September

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