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Linda Hawkins @lindamayhawkins.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

#FebruARTy #SensoryArt #Rough Love the look of old weathered buildings...they have the appearance of a rough existence.

Photograph of side of a very old brick building with chimney. Varied red brick had been covered in cement, and is starting to show through as aged cement falls away

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The impressive curving facade of Salisbury Quadrant on Nithsdale Drive in the Strathbungo area of Glasgow. Designed in the imposing Classical style of Thomson and Turnbull, it was built around 1880. #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #strathbungo

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

#onthisday, 15 Oct 1859, Lord Meath opened the #TurkishBaths in #Bray Co Wicklow. Built for William Dargan—the Irish Railway King—& initially run by Dr Barter, they were designed by Dr Barter's architect namesake. Bray was too small to support such large baths which soon closed. Demol 1980 🗃️ #C19th

Artist's impression of the exterior of the baths with a somewhat exaggerated height of the first floor and chimney.

Stereocard based on photograph of the baths shortly after the building was completed.

One of the two similar ends of the building showing doors for 1st and 2nd class baths, with an additional one for those taking private baths.

Mr Richard Barter, RHA, namesake of Dr Richard Barter, was a sculptor and architect who, in the fifteen years between 1857 and 1872, designed and supervised the building of all fifteen of the Doctor's Turkish baths in Ireland and London.

* The 3rd image shows the baths after closure when the original brickwork had been covered with stucco. * Recent research has shown that there is no evidence to indicate that Sir John Benson had anything to do with the design of the baths as stated in the 'Dictionary of Irish Architects' & elsewhere.

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

#onthisday, 15 Oct 1882, was born Éamon de Valera, politician & 3rd President of Ireland. During the 1922 civil war he & his followers hid in the #TurkishBaths at the Hammam Hotel, #Dublin. National soldiers shelled it on 5 July but they had already escaped—the Hammam was totally destroyed. 🗃️ #C19th

Advertisement for the Hammam Hotel and Turkish bath, Upper Sackville (now O'Connell) Street.

Armoured cars outside the Hammam during the 1922 Irish Civil War. Although pounded by rifles, grenades, and machine-guns from 2-5 July, those hiding inside escaped. A few hours after this photo was taken…

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This three-in-one slate hammer splits roofing stone with a single perfect strike, and watching it never gets old.

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

#onthisday, 13 October 1853, was born the actor and singer Lillie Langtry who visited several #TurkishBaths, and also featured in an advert for the Pilgrim Street Turkish baths in #Newcastle. She may have been to Lord Armstrong's bath at #Cragside with HRH, but we're not absolutely sure. 🗃️ #C19th

Photo of Lillie Langtry advertising the baths, in a letter written in December 1885: "[ I write a line to tell you how much pleased I have been with the way you manage the Ladies Bath.] I attribute my perfect health to the Turkish Bath, which I take twice a week regularly. I find it keeps my skin in excellent condition, notwithstanding the pigments one is unfortunately obliged to use on the stage, and I think for all small ailments the Turkish Baths is the best Doctor to fly to."

Photo of part of the entrance to the Pilgrim Street Turkish baths, to the right of Miller's paint shop.

Architect James Shotton's plan of the Pilgrim Street Turkish baths. At the bottom of the plan can be seen the doorway from the street (partly shown in previous image).

Typical advertisement for the baths giving the opening times, quoting Langtry's letter, and offering refreshments including chops and steaks. Also boasts "The Only Russian Bath in the North of England," though the validity of this claim is unknown.

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Alan @gammacounter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m sure I’ve shown you these bricks before but every time I pass this ~ 1940s apartment I stop to enjoy those curved bricks at the corner, the glaze, and the general color combo.

Brick wall with color range dark brown to light tan, some bricks on the corner are special bricks with curved edges

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Loesje Z @loesjez.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

A painting a day keeps the doctor away. Sientje van Houten: Portrait of Betzy Rezora Berg. #art

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

You couldn't get your bike caught in that magnificent tramline.

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

👻 I do love it when I stumble across the ghost of a house within a house - here at Much Wenlock - time and continuity in wood, bricks and mortar.

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Interesting. Where did you find that? I know a couple of baths did that, but Brighton?

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

#onthisday, 12 Oct 1868, the #Brighton #TurkishBaths opened in West Street. Architect, Horatio Nelson Goulty, the secretary, & all original directors of the Brighton Turkish Bath Co Ltd were Freemasons. www.victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/... Closed 1909, becoming the Academy Cinema. 🗃️ #C19th

Certificate No.758 for a £10 share in the Brighton Turkish Bath Company Limited.

Drawings of the proposed hot room and cooling-room, with two floor plans.

Drawing of bathers standing and seated round the plunge pool in the cooling-room, part of an advertisement for the baths shortly after opening.

The exterior of the baths in 1939, thirty years after its closure and conversion into the Academy Cinema.

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

10 October 1901 - 11 January 1966 Alberto Giacometti, Swiss (1901-1966), Four Figurines on a Stand, 1950-65, cast c 1965-66, bronze, 156.2 x 41.9 x 31.4 cm, Tate, London, England

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Brad Holkesvig @bradjholk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is one of my favorite duckling shots. #ducklings #photography

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Not everyone was grubby. Many found that they could efficiently clean themselves in hot air and visited one of at least six known C19 Victorian Turkish baths in the city. And in 1904, the new Sawston St City Baths included Victorian-style Turkish baths.

These Victorian Turkish baths were opened by his Excellency Sir George Bowen, the Governor of the State of Victoria, on 23 October 1873. There were separate baths for womenl.

The women's cooling-room and dressing cubicles in Fullalove's Turkish baths in Lonsdale Street. The baths opened early 1867 on the site of the earlier baths which burnt down the previous year, though this photograph was probably taken some years later.

Women's day in the tepidarium at the Lonsdale Oriental baths in 1862. These were the second Victorian Turkish baths in Australia, opened in 1860 shortly after those in Sydney, and at almost the same time as the first such baths in London. They were destroyed by fire in November 1867.

Part of a plan of the Sawston Street City Baths showing the Victorian-style Turkish baths on the first floor. (Image: University of Melbourne Archives)

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Old Treasury Building @oldtreasurymelb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Can you imagine Melbourne without running water? Without a sewer system? Discover the grubby realities of life in Melbourne before 1900 with Margaret Anderson later this month! This talk is presented online as part of History Month.

events.humanitix.com

Homes & Hygiene in Marvellous Smellbourne

Discover the grubby realities of life in Melbourne before 1900 and the changes that the twentieth century brought to homes and hygiene!

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Some middle eastern countries hang people in a public square. The Americans now go further. Perhaps there will be ads while they're taking aim.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I believe that the Catcliffe Glass Cone is the oldest surviving structure of its type in Western Europe and one of only four that remain in this country.Situated just 2 1/2 miles from Rotherham, the glassworks, were established in 1740 by William Fenney. The 20 metre high cone acted as an

The Catcliffe Glass Cone is the oldest surviving structure of its type in Western Europe. It acted as an industrial glassmaking chimney and furnace enclosure.

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Art Deco Daily @artdecodaily.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Cincinnati Times-Star Building Art Deco Times-Star Building at 800 Broadway, Cincinnati, built 1933 by Samuel Hannaford & Sons for the Taft family's newspaper. 📷 w_lemay (CC0) · Wikimedia Commons #ArtDeco #architecture

A tall tan stone Art Deco tower with vertical window bays and carved decorative stonework at the top, photographed from below against a blue sky with wispy clouds.

Looking up at the Art Deco tower corner of the Times-Star Building against a blue sky with clouds

Ornate gilded wrought-iron grille with figural panels above three bronze Art Deco entrance doors at the Times-Star Building

Close-up of bronze Art Deco doors with diamond and fan motifs and polychrome zigzag trim above

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can't think offhand of any flix made before I was born in 1935 that I've watched more than once. But early films afterwards were Fantasia, Hellzapoppin, and Pimpernell Smith.

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Brigitte Webster @tudorfoodrecipe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Some early seventeenth-century oak risers, treads and dainty nosing around a closed timber framed well #earlymodern

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Steve Reich - BOTD

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Queen of Clubs, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, Art Nouveau pioneer and Glasgow School Artist #WomensArt

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wow! That sounds interesting. I've never had a sulphur bath. I think some of the Victorian era shampooers were quite hefty. Was the shampooing more like you get in a hammam, with fairly vigorous manipulation? Any pix would be interesting—but probably not allowed.

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#onthisday, 3 Oct 1896, William Morris died. Morris, Arts and Crafts movement textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist, was a regular frequenter of Victorian #TurkishBaths with his friends Luke Ionides, Philip Webb, & Edward Burne-Jones (who drew these caricatures). 🗃️ #C19th

Lying prone, Morris is being shampooed on his back.

Lying on his back, Morris is being shampooed.

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#onthisday, 3 October 1863, Dr Charles H Shepard added Victorian #TurkishBaths to his hydropathic 'sanitorium' at No.63 Columbia Street, #Brooklyn Heights, #NewYork &, in doing so, opened the first Turkish bath in the USA. www.victorianturkishbath.org/_2HISTORY/At.... The baths closed 1913.🗃️ #C19th

Engraving showing the front of the baths building. Originally the baths occupied only No. 63 Columbia Street (on the left of the building), but in 1867 a new Men's bath was opened next door at No. 65, while the original baths at No. 63 were converted for use by women.

Illustrated cover of a booklet, 'Rheumatism and its treatment by Turkish baths' published by Dr Shepard in 1892.

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#onthisday, 3 Oct 1870, Dr Richard Barter died aged 68. An Irish physician, he built the 1st experimental Victorian #TurkishBaths at his St Ann's Hydro, realising David Urquhart's 30 yr dream of reintroducing the bath to the Br Isles. Barter associated with 9+ Tbs in Ireland, & 1 in London. 🗃️ #C19th

Dr Richard Barter, shortly before his death, standing next to the entrance to the latest of the Turkish baths built at St Ann's.

Portrait bust of Dr Barter by his namesake, the sculptor and architect Richard Barter, who designed all of the doctor's Victorian Turkish baths in Ireland, as well as the one in London.

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Indeed. And many had to go out to a pump to get water to heat enough for a tin bath in front of the kitchen stove.

Bathtime in the home of a poor family in the 1890s. The same water would normally be used for all the children. (Carol Adams, Ordinary lives, Virago, 1982, p.16)

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Barter did this with all his baths. But only a few others did, making nonsense of today's 18 year olds only rules—perhaps a reflection on today's parents' inability to control their children so as not to disturb others. See clip below about Cookridge Road Oriental Baths in Leeds from my book, p.150.

B., Frank ‘In a Turkish bath’ Leeds Mercury (4 Feb 1888)

A poster advertising the Oriental Baths in 1858, showing the baths as originally built. (Leeds Library and Information Services)

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#onthisday, 1 October 1876, the Imperial Bath Company opened a Victorian #TurkishBaths at the rear of the Hollman House Hotel at 7 W 24th St, #NewYork, NY. Hot rooms, marble shampooing room, with "various showers, and the needle-bath", dressing and cooling-rooms for men and women. 🗃️ #C19th

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#onthisday, 1 October 1860, Dr Barter opened #TurkishBaths for the Working Classes at 43 Little Donegal St, #Belfast. They were actually 2nd Class baths attached to the 1st Class baths opening on 1 November, but entered from 112 Donegal St. www.victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/... +ALT 🗃️ #C19th

Advertisement for the baths shortly after they opened, detailing opening hours and charges. While the baths were never advertised as Turkish Baths for the Working Classes, this is how they were popularly known, possibly because they opened before the first class baths. Newspapers initially referred to them as such, and when Barter opened similar baths in Maylor Street, Cork, they were officially called Turkish Baths for the Destitute Poor and, more popularly as The People's Turkish Baths. (M'Comb's Guide to Belfast: the Giant's Causeway and adjoining districts of Antrim and Down…, 1861)

In 1892 the baths were bought by John North (who had previously purchased Barter's Upper Sackville Street baths in Dublin). He rebuilt them (image above) and renamed them the Belfast Hammam. Under further owners, they remained open till 1936 and were demolished ten years later. (Image courtesy the Belfast Telegraph)

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They do it better in (parts of) Birmingham. See: victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/...

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#onthisday, 30 September 1800, was born architect Decimus Burton (son of James Burtonm, designer & founder of St Leonards-on-Sea). Decimus owned 5 shares in the company which built its #TurkishBaths (victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/...). The baths failed but (now) Listed bldg remains. 🗃️ #C19th

The Turkish baths building on a card posted in 1907. The photograph would have been taken some years previously, probably soon after Uplands School completed the building of their swimming pool in 1871. (Photo: Castro collection)

Photo I took of all that remains of the Turkish baths building in 2006, shortly after it failed to find a buyer at auction. It was later sold more than once.

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#onthisday, 30 September 1868, James Bryning opened the #Surrey #TurkishBaths at 191 Blackfriars Road, London. More about the image (with link to more about the baths) at www.victorianturkishbath.org/6DIRECTORY/A... The baths closed in 1888, becoming site 4 the New Surrey Chapel & Schools. 🗃️ #C19th

Contemporary photo of exterior of the baths with three men and a small girl at the door. (Photo courtesy of 'Paul')

Advertisement for the baths in the South London Press (2 January 1869) shortly after their opening, with charges and times.

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#onthisday, 26 Sept 1929, Paddington Borough Council added the wonderful Art Deco #TurkishBaths to the Porchester Baths. A proposal that Paddington Vestry include them in their 1874 baths bldg was unsuccessful although they did agree to set aside space for them—a wait of only 56 years. +ALT 🗃️ #C19th

This baths building is the only one in the world with a direct entrance from the street, through a heat-locked lobby directly into a Turkish baths cooling-room, shown here with its original sign. Since refurbishment and outsourcing, the council refuses to indicate this unique entrance with its original sign, or a replica. Instead the new sign suggests that the entrance is to (a non-existant) "Porchester Spa". So much for a council's respect for its unique historic entrance.

Part of the cooling room with a gallery overlooking the plunge pool.

Poster for the baths produced shortly after its opening in 1929.

Part of a leaflet dating from when the Turkish baths were run by the City of Westminster itself.

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#onthisday, 25 September 1859, Frederick S Rawnsley, Sec. of the St Peter's Foreign Affairs Committee in #Leeds, and Mgr of #TurkishBaths in St Peter's Square, opened his own establishment in Wade Lane. Surviving under several owners for almost 60 years, this early bath closed in 1916. +ALT 🗃️ #C19th

Advertisement in the Leeds Times (17 September 1859) announcing the forthcoming opening of Rawnsley's new bath, below which is an advertisement for Rawnsley's original baths, now under new ownership. Both men were Foreign Affairs Committeemen, and the dispute between the two also had political ramifications. More at https://victorianturkishbath.org/3TOPICS/AtoZArts/Porticos/pix/StPeters_w.htm

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#onthisday, 24 September 1927, #Bermondsey opened its £150,000 Grange Road Baths. Some papers lammed the council for providing 'luxurious' #TurkishBaths on the rates as they were well fitted out for a local authority facility. Gay friendly. Closed 1973—"structural defects". Demolished 1975. 🗃️ #C19th

Main frontage of the baths building in Grange Road, just south of the Thames.

Plan of part of the basement which housed the Turkish baths. These comprised three hot rooms, plunge bath, shower room, shampooing room fitted for two shampooers, and provided with the usual shampoo slabs and bowls. There was also a complementary steam room.

The carpeted cooling-room at the baths, with loungers, tables and chairs, and thirteen cubicles, each containing a couch and small table, etc.

A still from a 1930s Bermondsey Council film 'Where there's life there's soap' promoting their Turkish baths. Can be viewed online, courtesy Wellcome Collection at https://wellcomecollection.org/works/zrgauwtq

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#onthisday, 23 September 1889, died author Wilkie Collins, advised by his friend and doctor, Francis Carr Beard, to visit #TurkishBaths for his health. He wrote to his mother, 'excellent shampoos and great care in attendance.' (Thanks to @paullewismoney.bsky.social) 🗃️ #C19th

Caricature of Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) by Adriano Cecioni. Caption read "The Novelist who invented Sensation".

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Entrance to the Mersey Tunnel, 1934, painting by T. B. Forshaw (Museum of Liverpool).

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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Hātabaðan, n: Bath (place name). (HA-ta-BA-thon / ˈhaː-ta-ˌba-θan) The city of Bath used to be called Hot Baths. Image: Book of Hours; St Omer or Théouranne, c. 1320; @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add MS 36684, f. 7v. #OldEnglish #WOTD #placenames

Medieval marginalia depicting a person bathing in a barrel-like tub, with a large bird perched above them and a dragon like creature lurking below.

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#onthisday, 20 September 1909, #Carlisle quietly opened #TurkishBaths in James St. Victorian-designed by City Surveyor Percy Dalton—later erected by local builder Wm Johnstone. It's now Grade II Listed. www.victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/… Closed 2022, but active campaign to reopen. 🗃️ #C19th

Early photograph of the changing cubicles and plunge bath in the cooling-room

Detail of the wonderful glazed faïence corbels and tilework

Plan of the three hot rooms, and the shampooing room with its needle douche

From Twitter page of the campaigning group, Friends of Carlisle Victorian & Turkish Baths. Please do visit the page (and one of the organised visits to the baths) and please support the Friends. The baths may have been quietly opened, but when they are re-opened it will be much much louder!

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Darren McLean @darrenmcleanuk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In the 1910s this machine - mounted on a flatbed train carriage - took in a rounded log, squared it, predrilled holes in it for spikes and spat it out ready for creosoting, for use as a railway sleeper/tie.

A worker beside a train carriage mounted machine with a wood sleeper/tie being brought to him

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#onthisday, 16 September 1868, #Hobart Town Turkish Bath Co Ltd, encouraged by John Le Gay Brereton (who introduced the bath in #Australia), opened #TurkishBaths on the corner of Collins & Harrington Streets. Scene of an unusual incident in 1870 www.victorianturkishbath.org/_7CHARIVARI/... 🗃️ #C19th

Detail of the single storey Turkish baths building. (Courtesy of the State Library Of Tasmania)

Outer cover of booklet published in 1869. Front titled 'The Turkish Bath: a Lecture given by J[ohn] Le Gay Brereton, MD…'. The back comprises an advertisement for the Hobart Turkish bath, with several testimonials.

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#onthisday, 16 September 1886, #TurkishBaths were opened at the St Petersgate Public Baths in #Stockport. Hot rooms 135°, 175°, & 260° F, shampooing room, & cooling-room. Stained glass windows and gas-lit by night. JC Prestwich of Leigh beat 90 other architects in competition. Closed 1993. 🗃️ #C19th

Photo of the façade of the public baths building. Mainly two storey with smaller central third storey. Built in free "Queen Anne" style, with Ruabon bricks and terracotta dressings. Arched windows.

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#onthisday, 13 September 1905, #Bradford opened its Central Baths, with electrical, medicated, & sun ray treatments. Its #TurkishBaths had 3 hot rooms, 2 cooling-rooms, & a shampooing rm. By 1936, the Turkish Suite had been renamed Windsor Baths & given its own entrance. Closed 1 May 1983. 🗃️ #C19th

Cover of the official handbook marking the opening of the baths on Great Horton Road.

"The Electic Vibrator on being applied to a patient's body gives a form of massage which is considered much superior to the ordinary massage given by hand, and is generally found to be a powerful invigorator. It is particularly useful after the radiant heat and light treatment." An electro-massage cost 1/- for ten minutes.

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#onthisday, 12 September 1878, Cleopatra's Needle was installed in London, its hazardous overseas journey paid for by Sir William James Erasmus Wilson, surgeon, dermatologist, archaeologist, author of "The Eastern, or Turkish bath" & an early shareholder in the famous Jermyn Street Hammam. 🗃️ #C19th

Title page of "The Eastern, or Turkish bath: its history, revival in Britain, and appplication to the purposes of health" published in 1861.

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Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#onthisday, 11 Sept 1860, Foreign Affairs Committeeman Roger Evans—who'd earlier that yr opened London's 1st Victorian #TurkishBaths in Bell St—had to open larger one in Golden Square. Closed 1866—bldg to be Hosp for Throat Diseases extn (RNENT). www.victorianturkishbath.org/_2HISTORY/At... 🗃️ #C19th

Typographic advertisement for Evans' Turkish Baths, managed by another Foreign Affairs Committeeman, John Johnson, who went on to manage the Jermyn Street Hammam.

Handwritten accounts for the first 16 weeks of Roger Evans’s Turkish baths in Golden Square. (Wellcome Library)

Advertisement for both of Evans's Turkish baths from the Weekly Register and Catholic Standard (20 Oct 1860) published shortly after the Golden Square baths opened.

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