Victorian Turkish Baths—the book

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Welcome to these pages designed
specially for readers of my book
Victorian Turkish Baths
Published in 2015 by Historic England
in partnership with Liverpool University Press
Distributed in the US by Oxford University Press

The pages in this section are regularly updated with the most recent occasion noted on each page.

Below are the thirty direct links to additional information, or to illustrated articles on the complementary Victorian Turkish Baths website, signposted by the symbol § in the book. They are arranged in page order for ease of access while you are reading.

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Jacket About the image of the Southport mosaic sign
 xviii Directory section of the website
   31 'the Free Press did not yet exist'
  42 Dr Barter's Lincoln Place baths in Dublin
  43 The baths at 'B***' attacked
  75 Mrs Doggett asks for more
105 Directory section of the website (the same as page xviii)
105 List of the companies found, some linked to notes or articles
106 Benjamin Bell and the Grosvenor Turkish Baths in London
107 The Sansome Walk baths in Worcester
115 Bartholomew and the baths at Neath, Wales
121 The Brighton Hammam, West Street, with plans and sections
122 Dalston Junction Turkish Baths, with plans and verses
124 The Royal Turkish Baths at Harrogate
124 Royal Leamington Spa Pump Rooms and Baths
124 The Roman Baths, Cambridge, & the company that built them
126 The Working Class Turkish Baths, Belfast, Ireland
126 Blackburn Turkish Baths, Richmond Terrace
133 The Victoria Baths, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester
141 Lochhead Hydropathic Establishment, Aberdeen, Scotland
172 Lochhead Hydropathic Establishment (the same as page 141)
210 Ben Rhydding Hydro, Ilkley
212 Rivalry at Glenbrook, Ireland (the hotel and the hydro)
217 Charlemont Arms Hotel Turkish Baths, Armagh, Ireland
237 Turkish baths still open including those with naturist sessions
240 Lewes Turkish Baths
281 The Brighton Hammam, West Street (the same as page 121)
287 The Survey of London corrections
298 The death of William Urquhart, or, Karl Marx liked a good gossip
311 Nevill's, Northumberland Avenue—Holmes, Raffles & Psmith
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