VICTORIAN TURKISH BATHS: opened in Scotland |

Turkish baths directory

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

A. Arranged by place

II: Turkish baths in Scotland

Last updated: 18 April 2008

This table lists stand-alone Turkish bath establishments alphabetically by place.

Additional establishments in this country are included in separate tables listing Turkish baths which are part of other establishments, ie, in Animals, Clubs, Hospitals, Houses and Hydros

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.

Scotland
ABERDEEN: Bath St (1), Bath Hotel	1888—1900 Chronology
ABERDEEN: George Street (49½)	1886—1889 Chronology
ABERDEEN: George Street (77)	1886—1893 Chronology
ABERDEEN: Justice Mill Lane	1940-2008 Chronology
ALLOA: Primrose Street	1898—1965 Article
BRIDGE OF ALLAN: [adjoining the Wells]	1862—1886 Chronology & image
DUNDEE: West Protection Wall	1871—1974 Article
DUNDEE: Yeaman Shore (13)	1864—1879 Chronology & image
DUNFERMLINE: Pilmuir Street	1905 Still open Article
EDINBURGH: Cockburn Street (17)	1873—1892 Chronology
EDINBURGH: Hope Street ( later Casselbank Street, off Leith Walk )	1872—1915 Chronology
EDINBURGH: Portobello Esplanade / The Promenade (57)	1901 Still open
EDINBURGH: Princes Street (90)	* 1861—1920 Short article
EDINBURGH: South Clerk Street (76)	1865—
EDINBURGH: Stafford Street (12), West End	1886—1915 Short article
EDINBURGH: Thirlestane Street (17)	1907—1929+
EDINBURGH: Whitfield Place	1870—1871 Chronology
GLASGOW: Argyle Street (366)	* 1861—1908 Chronology
GLASGOW: Ashtree Road, Pollockshaws	1927—1971
GLASGOW: Bath Street	1881—1903 Chronol, notes & image
GLASGOW: Calder Street (99), Govanhill	1917—1990
GLASGOW: Elvan Street (86), Shettleston	1929—1971
GLASGOW: London Street (105)	1881—1884
GLASGOW: Medwyn Street, Whiteinch	1926—1995
GLASGOW: Sauchiehall Street (15/47)	1861—1885 Chronology
GLASGOW: Sauchiehall Street (92)	1886—1889 Chronology
GLASGOW: West Campbell Street (130)	1870—1872 Chronology
GLASGOW: Whitevale Street / East John Street	1902—1971 Chronology
GREENOCK: Campbell Street	1879—1914
INVERNESS: Turkish baths	1889
KILMARNOCK: John Dickie Street (5)	1879—1911 Chronology
PAISLEY: Storie Street	1896—1915

* This establishment may not have been open during the whole of the period indicated

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Dressing room in the Turkish Baths at the Carnegie Institute in Dunfermline