Victorian Turkish Bath - c1860s

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Victorian Turkish Baths

In 1856, the first modern Turkish bath was opened in Britain in Britain at St Ann's Hydropathic Establishment near Blarney, County Cork, Ireland. A Turkish bath provided a steam bath  followed by a shower and massage. The next year, the first Turkish bath to be built in England since Roman times was opened in Manchester. The popularity of Turkish baths spread; during the following 150 years, over six hundred baths opened in Britain.

See "Victorian Turkish Baths" by Malcolm Shifrin. 

   

 

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