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About the list of companies: how they have been found
THE list includes all companies so far identified. Gradually, as information is added, entries will be hyperlinked to their own descriptive articles. The list comprises some of the limited liability companies set up to run Turkish baths—perhaps only a small proportion. Neither the records at the National Archives (Public Record Office) nor those at Companies House can currently be searched by business function of the company. Those included are probably the majority of those in which the word Turkish is part of the name, but there may well have been many other baths companies or, indeed, laundry companies which, at some stage operated (or intended to operate) Turkish baths. Companies have also been included when their existence became known from other sources, though it has not been possible to check every company with the word bath in its title, even if this would have been considered a worthwhile activity. But fortune has also played a part, for there is no logical way to have determined that companies with names such as H Walduck Properties (or even The South Shields Salt Water Bath Company) ran Turkish baths. There is, of course, a clue in the name Balneum Laconicum—but first you have to stumble across it. Finally, it should be noted that quite a few companies set up to operate Turkish baths never actually progressed far enough to commence trading.
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