This table was last updated on
11 November 2007
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Victorian Turkish
baths in Australia
There
were Victorian Turkish baths in Sydney and
Melbourne before there was one in London.
Listen to
the radio programme by Dr Susan Aykut
(without whom this
table would be very sketchy indeed)
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ADELAIDE, SA: Adelaide Arcade
(Little Collins Street end) |
1885—1969 |
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ADELAIDE, SA: Grenfell St:
Osbaldiston's Turkish Baths |
1867 only |
ADELAIDE, SA: King
William Rd: City Baths, 1863
(Turkish
baths added few yrs later) |
1867—1969 |
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ADELAIDE, SA: Hindmarsh Turkish baths |
1897 |
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BALLARAT, VIC: Turkish baths |
1864,
1867 |
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BONDI, NSW: Queen Elizabeth
Drive: Bondi Surf Pavilion: Turkish Baths |
1929—1977 |
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BRISBANE, Qld: Albert St
(154): Turkish Baths1 |
1874—1915 |
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BRISBANE, Qld: Off
Ann St, Petrie's Bight: Excelsior
Turkish & Cold Baths |
1888,
1894 |
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BRISBANE, Qld: Perry
Street:
Turkish Baths |
1889,
1894 |
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BRISBANE, Qld: Skinner St,
West End: Turkish Baths |
1889,
1894 |
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CAMPBELLTOWN, Tas: Campbelltown Benevolent Hospital Turkish
Baths |
1860s |
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COOLGARDIE, WA: Turkish
Baths2 |
1895— |
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GEELONG, Vic: Great
Ryrie St: Turkish
Baths (Mr Jones, Mgr) |
1871— |
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HAWKESDALE, Vic:
'Dunmore': private Turkish
bathhouse |
1866— |
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HOBART, Tas: Harrington St: Hobart Turkish
Baths3 |
1868—1928 |
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LAUNCESTON, Tas: Charles St:
Edward Ackerman's Turkish Baths |
1863—1893 |
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LAUNCESTON, Tas: Paterson
St: Queen
Victoria Swimming and Turkish Baths |
1897—1950s |
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LAUNCESTON, Tas: Upper
Elizabeth St |
1861— |
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MELBOURNE, Vic: Bourke St
E (24):
Thomas Hosie's Turkish Bathing
Palace
and Bar4 |
1873—1881 |
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MELBOURNE, Vic: Chapel St,
Prahran Arcade: Turkish Baths5 |
1890—1900 |
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MELBOURNE, Vic:
Elizabeth Street: Nick Spartels' Turkish Baths |
1920s, 1970s |
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MELBOURNE, Vic: Little
Collins
St: Bjelke-Petersen Institute Turkish Baths |
1929—1934 |
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MELBOURNE, Vic: Lonsdale
Street: Pietriche's Oriental Baths |
1860—1870 |
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MELBOURNE, Vic: Lonsdale
Street: Fullalove's Turkish Baths
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1926 |
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MELBOURNE, Vic: Royal Arcade,
Bourke St: Turkish Baths6 |
1870—1929 |
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MELBOURNE, Vic:
Russell Street (127) : Burton's Turkish
Baths |
1871, 1875 |
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MELBOURNE, Vic: Swanston Street
(420): City
Baths |
1904—1983 |
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MOUNT WILSON, NSW:
Richard Wynne's Turkish bath
Article by Mary Reynolds |
1880s—1895 |
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PERTH,
WA: Murray St (132): Smedley’s Hydropathic and Russo-Turkish
Baths |
1901—1904 |
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PERTH, WA: Pier St (29):
Smedley’s Hydropathic and Russo-Turkish Baths |
1904— |
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PERTH, WA: St George's
Baths, including Turko-Russian Baths |
1897
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SYDNEY, NSW: Bligh Street
(27): Turkish Baths7 |
1861—1923 |
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SYDNEY, NSW: ElizabethStreet
(183): Ladies Turkish Baths |
—1921 |
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SYDNEY, NSW: Liverpool St (150): Ultra Modern T Baths Arthur Thomas
(Propr) |
1954— |
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SYDNEY, NSW: Oxford St: Wigzell's
Hairdressers and Turkish Baths |
1883— |
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SYDNEY, NSW: Pitt St (158):
J Stuart's Turkish and Russian Baths |
1865 |
SYDNEY, NSW: Spring St:
First Victorian Turkish bath
opened in Australia by
John Le Gay Brereton |
1859—1861 |
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SYDNEY, NSW: Australia Hotel
Turkish Baths |
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SYDNEY, NSW: Dobson's Turkish
Baths nr Central Station |
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TOWNSVILLE, Qld: Denham
Street: Turkish
Baths F Shaw (Propr) |
1892, 1893 |
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TOWNSVILLE, Qld:
Strand: Corporation Turkish
Baths W Treeve (Lessee) |
1894, 1895 |
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Dr Susan Aykut,
Deputy Director, Institute for Public History, Monash
University, for
much of the information about Turkish baths in
Australia
Mary Reynolds, Secretary, Mount Wilson Historical
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Notes:
1. In 1915 this establishment was known as Halliday's
Turkish Baths
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2. Designed by the distinguished architect,
Edwin Summerhayes
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3. Hobart
Town Turkish Bath Company Ltd set up at the instigation of Henry
Llewelyn Roberts in 1867. Baths built at a cost of £400, opening
in September 1868. Company liquidated 1892, H L Roberts (Liquidator). A
later proprietor was W Chester
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4.
Hosie’s bath opened 23 October 1873 Prahran
Telegraph
(6 Dec 1873)
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5. Opened
in 1890
Prahran Telegraph (2 Aug 1890)
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6.
Operated, at various times, by
Pietriche, Hosie, and members of the
Lucas family
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7. These
baths were initially owned
by John Le Gay Brereton,
possibly until they were refurbished in 1884
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