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

        

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Other lists of Turkish baths—arranged by area and by user

                           

 

       
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Turkish baths for asylums

Last updated: 02 April 2008
           

Individual establishments arranged alphabetically by place.

Known opening and closing dates are indicated in the table, as is the existence of more detailed chronologies. All articles include a chronology. However, please note that chronologies do not appear in the version of the site without frames.

Dates in blue are accurate openings or closures to the best of our knowledge;
Dates in red are first and last sightings.
Plus or minus signs indicate 'and later' or 'and earlier'. 

If you have access to local newspapers and can add, amend, or correct any dates, please do contact us.

                        

CORK: District Asylum

   1861—1889+

DENBIGH: North Wales County Asylum

   1871—1910+
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EXMINSTER: Devon County Asylum

1865

HAYWARD'S HEATH: Sussex County Asylum

  1865—1863+

LIMERICK: District Asylum

 1862—1871+

LONDON: Claybury Asylum, Woodford

    1893—1939  

LONDON: Colney Hatch, Friern Barnet

1865—1888+
Article

LONDON: Leavesden 'Imbeciles Asylum'

1876—

VIRGINIA WATER: Holloway Sanatorium

1881—1883+

YORK: The Retreat

1877—1889+

             
¶  Closed during World War I (1914-18)

                         

 
 


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Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, later renamed Friern Hospital

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