available. Hot-air baths of the same type, built after Queen Victoria's reign (1837–1901), are known as Victorian-style Turkish baths, and are also covered...
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The Turkish baths at Lincoln Place in Dublin, Ireland were Victorian Turkish baths opened on 2 February 1860. The baths closed in 1900 after unsuccessfully...
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Swindon Victorian Turkish Baths, in Swindon, England, were initially opened in Taunton Street by the GWR Medical Society Fund in 1868. In 1906, the fund...
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The baths offered saunas, plunge pools and shower and were advertised as providing health benefits to patrons. These typical Victorian-style Turkish baths...
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Bathing (category Articles containing Turkish-language text)
shower. Communal bathing, such as that in hammams, sauna, banya, Victorian Turkish baths, and sentō, fulfils the same purpose, in addition to its often...
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as Turkish baths). Most baths of this period used the name 'Turkish' or 'improved Turkish'; the Roman Bath Co chose to use 'Roman (improved Turkish) Baths'...
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comprising the main swimming pool, the children's pool, and Victorian-style Turkish baths, opened in 1938. They are located at Ironmonger Row, in the...
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the Islamic world for personal cleansing and socialising. Victorian Turkish baths, which use hot dry air, came into use in 1856 in the British Isles as...
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Gay bathhouse (redirect from Gay Baths)
experimenting in the baths and learning of new pleasures. — George Chauncey, Gay New York, 1995 In London, the Savoy Victorian-style Turkish Baths at 92 Jermyn...
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church building and was the site of a deadly fire. Everard Baths was a Victorian Turkish bath founded by financier James Everard in 1888 in a former...
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hydropathy. He collaborated with David Urquhart on the introduction of Victorian Turkish baths into the United Kingdom. Barter founded St Ann(e)'s Hydropathic...
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Steam bath (redirect from Steam baths)
are types of steam bath. Banya (sauna) — A Russian steam bath Victorian Turkish baths Public bathing Sauna Thermae The Cultural Progression of the Spa...
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Dennis. p. 383. ISBN 0 903685 97 3. "Turkish baths in the British Isles still open to the public…". Victorian Turkish Baths: their origin, development, and...
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George Witt (collector) (category Victorian Turkish baths)
1860) Shifrin, Malcolm (2015) Victorian Turkish Baths (Swindon: Historic England) pp.190-192 Stevenson, Alexandra 'A Turkish bath for horses at Hampton Court...
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Hydrotherapy (section Hot-air baths)
revival. The specific use of heat was however often associated with Victorian Turkish baths. These were introduced by David Urquhart into England on his return...
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fashion Victorian house Victorian jewellery Victorian masculinity Victorian painting Victorian Turkish baths Women in the Victorian era This is the term...
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short citation] and in the case of Adriatic, an indoor pool and Victorian-style Turkish baths. Celtic was the first of the "Big Four", entering service in...
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November 2009. Shifrin, Malcolm (3 October 2008). "Victorian Turkish Baths Directory". Victorian Turkish Baths: Their origin, development, and gradual decline...
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Hammam (redirect from Turkish baths)
"Turkish bath centre defunct at Nizamia general hospital". siasat.com. 11 January 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2012. "Where are those Turkish baths?"....
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November 2009. Shifrin, Malcolm (3 October 2008). "Victorian Turkish Baths Directory". Victorian Turkish Baths: Their origin, development, and gradual decline...
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Medina House (category Former public baths)
(2013). Medina House planning brief. p.4 Hove Baths and Laundry Company Limited. Victorian Turkish baths: their origin, development & gradual decline....
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David Urquhart (category Victorian Turkish baths)
the first Victorian Turkish baths in England were built by members of these committees under Urquhart's direction, and the exemplar baths at 76 Jermyn...
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Public bathing (redirect from Public baths)
conditions, and by 1915 most towns in Britain had at least one. Victorian Turkish baths (based on the traditional Muslim bathhouses which are derived from...
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Queensferry Road. The baths were designed in a Moorish style designed to look like a Hammam, reported as possibly being influenced by Turkish baths that Burnet...
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No.28 and Nevill's Victorian Turkish Baths at No.25 Northumberland Avenue, "twenty yards from the club's front door" (which baths were also used by Sherlock...
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City Baths is a swimming and sports facility located in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It is a Grade II listed building, with a Victorian-style Turkish baths...
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and Garter Hotel at Richmond (demolished in 1919) and the Savoy Victorian Turkish baths, the first in London to be lit by electricity. Phipps was chosen...
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bath was featured on the Olympic and the Titanic inside the Victorian-style Turkish baths. Women could use the bath during the morning hours, and men...
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Banya (sauna) (section Turkish hammam)
Eve. Public bathing Destination spa Hot tub Steam shower Bannik Victorian Turkish baths Also transliterated banja. "Banya: Russian steam bath, best Russian...
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Deco hot rooms" of its Victorian-style Turkish bath, one of the last such baths still open in the British Isles. Mounts Baths was built as part of a civic...
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