South Cliff Scarborough Bath Company Limited

           

                         

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South Cliff Scarborough Bath Company Limited  
                   

Company baths:

SCARBOROUGH: 62 Ramshill 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)

                      

 

             
The company was set up in 1864, but does not seem initially, on currently available evidence, to have intended to provide Turkish baths.


PRO: BT31/14529/9391
  
 

1874 Memorandum of Association: 2 December

Objects include: to provide warm and cold sea water, galvanic, vapour, sulphur, alkaline, and other medicated baths, mineral waters.

Capital: £6,000 divided into 1,200 shares of £5

Directors:

Hick, Thomas Edward

Newton, Edward Hotham

Wilkinson, Gilbert

Williamson, Joseph

Secretary: Smith, Arthur

Registered Office: 75 St Thomas Street, Scarborough

Architect: John Petch

Purchase: site on Ramshill Road of 657 sq yds by a frontage of 76 ft, freehold. Plans drawn up for erection of buildings to house 24 separate bathrooms. The cost of the site and the whole of the works is under £6,000

Contract: between Richard Cross, MD and John Petch on the one hand and Arthur Smith on the other.


This page last updated 15 February 2010

Post-1875 information will follow in due course

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