"The Turkish bath also included a 36 x 25 foot swimming pool equipped with an aquatic trapeze and swinging apparatus…"
1.
'The Turkish Baths' Cardiff Times (2 Sep 1864) p.5
2.
'Merthyr Local Board of Health'
Merthyr Telegraph (17 Sep 1864) p.3
3.
'To contractors, builders, and others' Merthyr Express (2 Dev
1864) p.3
4.
'Opening of the Merthyr Baths' Merthyr Express (14 Apr 1866)
p.2
5.
'Great success of the Turkish Baths at Merthyr' Merthyr Telegraph
(2 Jun 1866); Merthyr Express (2 Jun 1866) p.2
6.
'The Turkish Baths' Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian (20 Apr 1866)
p.3
7.
This description of the inside of the baths is taken from three
articles:
'Opening of the Merthyr Baths' Merthyr Express (14 Apr 1866)
p.2
'In the Turkish bath' / "Anselmo" Merthyr Express (5 Oct 1867) p.2
'In the Turkish bath' / "Anselmo" Merthyr Express (12 Oct 1867) p.2
8.
'In the Turkish bath' / "Anselmo" Merthyr Express (5 Oct 1867) p.2
9.
'In the Turkish bath' / "Anselmo" Merthyr Express (12 Oct 1867) p.2
10.
'The Turkish Bath in Merthyr' / "A New Disciple of The Bath" Merthyr
Express (12 Oct 1867) p.3
11.
Slater's Directory for Merthyr Tydfil (1868)
12.
Kelly's directory of Monmouthshire and South Wales, 1871
13.
'The water supply to the Turkish baths' Merthyr Express (30 Oct
1869) p.3
14.
TNA: PRO: BT 31/1600/5359
15.
Merthyr Express (5 Apr 1873) p.2
16.
'Merthyr Turkish Baths 'Merthyr Express (11 May 1878)
p.4
17.
Advertisement for the baths in a programme for the Welsh National
Edisteddfod held in Merthyr Tydfil in 1881 (Merthyr Tydfil Library:
Local history collection)
18.
'Obituary' Merthyr Express (6 Jan 1883) p.5
19.
'The Late Mr T Atkins, Turkish Baths, Merthyr' / "Brythonfryn"
Merthyr Express (26 May 1883) p.7
20.
It is not know when this advertisement was first placed, but the text
was probably the same as that which was repeated for some weeks after
Brythonfryn's obituary:
'Turkish Baths, Merthyr' Merthyr Express (10 Mar 1883) p.1