Cork Turkish Baths: South Mall:
two advertising cards from entrance passage
< Photo: Roger Herlihy, with thanks to
Michelle McCarthy, owner, Jacobs on the Mall
< Photo: Roger Herlihy, with thanks to
Michelle McCarthy,
owner, Jacobs on the Mall
These two framed pictures, one with a photograph of the outside of the Turkish baths, and the other with a photograph of the shampooing room, graced one of the walls of the passageway leading to the Turkish baths.
It is not known when they were first put up, but they were presented to Michelle McCarthy, proprietor of Jacobs on the Mall Restaurant which occupies the building today, by the family of the last proprietor of the Turkish baths, Peg Buckley, and they hang there still, dedicated to her memory.
The restaurant is named after Alf Jacobs who first opened the Turkish baths in 1891 and continued to own them until 1938.
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The Cork Turkish Baths: 30 South Mall
Victorian Turkish Baths: their origin, development, and gradual decline
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