"The baths were built behind a normal shop front with a plain red door. Set into it was a small square Arabic style grille through which a bather could be checked over before being allowed in."
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'New Turkish Bath' Marylebone Mercury (30 Aug
1879) p.2 |
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TNA PRO: BT31 3673/22781 |
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Kelly's directory of London |
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TNA PRO: BT31 3673/22781 |
5. | Kelly's directory of London |
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I am most indebted to Mike Young for his description of the baths
at this time, which I have unashamedly copied and only slightly altered and
re-arranged. |
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'London's oldest Turkish delights' / Eric Wright What's On (12 Oct 1988)
pp.10-11
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The other two were at 92 Jermyn Street (which opened in 1910 and became
the Savoy Turkish Baths in 1912), and the Imperial Hotel in Russell
Square (which opened in 1913). |
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Although the development of New York's gay Turkish baths are well
treated in Chapter 8 of George Chauncey's Gay New York: the making of
the gay male world, 1890-1940 there is, unfortunately, no comparable
work dealing with London. For the 19th century, see Chapter 27 of my
book, Victorian Turkish Baths. |
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'A Sun among cities': space, identities and queer male practices,
1918-57 / Matt Houlbrook. London, (University of Essex PhD Thesis,
2001). This later became the basis for Houlbrook's groundbreaking book
Queer London: perils and pleasures in the sexual metropolis,
1918-1957 (University of Chicago Press, 2005). |
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'A Sun among cities': space, identities and queer male practices,
1918-57 / Matt Houlbrook. London, (University of Essex PhD Thesis,
2001), p.126. This later became the basis for Houlbrook's groundbreaking
book Queer London: perils and pleasures in the sexual metropolis,
1918-1957 (University of Chicago Press, 2005). |
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'A Sun among cities': space, identities and queer male practices,
1918-57 / Matt Houlbrook. London, (University of Essex PhD Thesis,
2001), p.133. This later became the basis for Houlbrook's groundbreaking
book Queer London: perils and pleasures in the sexual metropolis,
1918-1957 (University of Chicago Press, 2005). |
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Pre-flyover. 16mm b&w silent film 2min.25sec. City of
Westminster, 1960. |
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Dickens's dictionary of London 1888: an unconventional handbook /
Charles Dickens [the younger]. Moretonhampstead : Old House Books,
1993. (Facsimile edition) |
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'Nevill's Turkish Baths' [Advertisement] Marylebone
Mercury (5 Apr 1929) p.2 |
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'Edgware Road Turkish Baths' [Advertisement] Kilburn
Times (19 Jun 1891) p.7 |
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'Edgware Road Turkish Baths' [Advertisement] Kilburn
Times (6 Nov 1891) p.7 |
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Interview on 23 April 1896. James Forder Neville by George Duckworth.
In: Life and labour of the people in London
2nd ed
/ by Charles Booth. London : Macmillan, 1902-1903. More about
these interviews can be found
here. |
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