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Victorian Turkish baths directory

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

B. Special Turkish baths arranged by type

Turkish baths for hydropathic establishments

Last updated: 22 December 2012

Individual establishments arranged alphabetically by place.

Known opening and closing dates of the baths 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 of the Turkish baths (not the hydros) 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.

ABERDEEN: Lochhead Hydropathic Establishment	1860—1868 Article on the baths
BATH: Limpley Stoke	1862—1939 Brief notes & image
BLACKPOOL: Imperial Hydro, Claremont Park	1884—1902+
BLARNEY: St Ann's Hydro—1st Victorian Turkish bath in British Isles	1856—1952 Images: Gallery (Places)
BOSCOMBE: Linden Hall, Christchurch Road	1920s
BOWDEN: Malvern House, Langhorne Road	1898
BOWNESS: Windermere Hydro, Biskey Howe	1881—1909+
BRAY: Delganey Hydropathic Establishment	1864—1870
BRIDGE OF ALLAN: Hydropathic Establishment	1862—1886+
CATERHAM: Godstone Road, Surrey Hills Hydro & Turkish Baths	1898—c.1927
CLEVEDON: Clevedon Hydropathic Establishment	1895
DUNBLANE: Philp's Dunblane Hydropathic Establishment	1878—1936
EDINBURGH: Craiglockhart Hydro, Colinton	1880—c.1915
EDINBURGH: Sciennes Hill Hydropathic Establishment, Newington	1859—1871
FORRES: Cluny Hill Hydropathic Establishment	1864—1874+
GLENBROOK: Dr Curtin's Hydropathic Establishment	1858—1870s Article
HARROGATE: Connaught Hydro, Connaught Road (8)	1886—1899
HARROGATE: Cairn Hydropathic Establishment, Duchy Road	1892—1899
HARROGATE: Harlow Manor, Harlow Manor Road	1893—1899+
HARROGATE: Harrogate Hydropathic Establishment, Swan Road	1878—c.1950
HASTINGS: Hastings Hydro and Spa, Old London Road	1894
HASTINGS: Metcalfe's Hydro: Wellington Square	1890—1897
HELENSBURGH: Shandon Hydropathic Establishment	1878—1939 Images and notes
HEXHAM: Hexham Hydro, Westfield House	1878—c.1914
ILKLEY: Ben Rhydding Hydro, Ben Rhydding	1859—1939 Article on the baths
ILKLEY: Craiglands Hydro (later Hotel)	1860s, 1938
KILMACOLM: Kilmalcolm Hydro	—1882
LEAMINGTON: Arboretum Hydro, Tachbrook Road	1863—1866⁺
LLANDUDNO: Llandudno Hydropathic Establishment, The Parade	1872—1905 Image
LONDON: Beulah Spa, Beulah Hill, Upper Norwood	1859—1913⁺
LONDON: Metcalfe's London Hydro, Richmond Hill	1898—1919+
LONDON: New Barnet: Graffenberg House, Station Road	1863—1878
LONDON: Paddington Green Hydro, Paddington Green (11)	1860—1897
MATLOCK: Rockside Hydropathic Establishment	1862—1946
MATLOCK BANK: Smedley's Hydropathic Establishment	1860s—1950s
MOFFAT: Hydro Hotel	1878—1921
PETERSHAM: Sudbrook Park	1861
ROTHESAY: Paterson's Hydropathic Establishment and Turkish baths	1862—
SKELMORLIE: Wemyss Bay Hydropathic Establishment: Turkish baths	1877—
SOUTHPORT: Limes Hydro, Bath Street (51 & 53)	c.1880—1916+
SOUTHPORT: Smedley's Hydro, Trafalgar Road (23), Birkdale Park	c.1880s—1909+
SOUTHPORT: Sunnyside Hydro, The Promenade Extension	1901—1905
TEMPLEMORE: Barnane Hydropathic and Turkish Bath Establishment	1865—
TUNBRIDGE WELLS: Bishop's Down Spa Hydropathic Sanatorium	1878—1916+
WALTON-ON-THAMES: Hydropathic Establishment	1858

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St Ann's Hydropathic Establishment, Blarney, Co.Cork

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