Turkish baths in provincial England

 

 Manchester: High Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock

    

                           

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

        

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List of other Turkish baths in the provinces

                           

 

 

Victoria Baths

4: Closure of the baths

In the year 1913-14, the Victoria baths cost £7,600 to run; in 1993 the annual running cost was said to be £250,000 and with an estimated £1m. needed for essential repairs, the Corporation decided to close the baths. It was not a popular decision.

Demonstrators campaigning to save an art nouveau baths building from closure promised yesterday to maintain a constant picket outside after a two-day sit-in ended with the doors locked and two people taken to hospital.

Scuffles broke out at the Victoria baths in Manchester as city council employees attempted to remove the last four of an estimated 200 demonstrators who occupied the building on Saturday, the day fixed for closure.

 While some supporters maintain that contemporary reports of scuffles and injuries were exaggerated, there is no doubt that the protests were widely supported. In particular, as the placard of one of the marchers proclaimed, there was some resentment that while there was no shortage of cash for the Council's bid for the Olympic Games, there was none to support a historic swimming pool for local people.

                              

 
 


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