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Malcolm Shifrin FRHistS—"Victorian Turkish Baths": 'a major act of historical recovery', 'readable', 'scholarly', 'something in it for everyone'. Profusely illustrated. worldcat.org/title/931082056. Complementary website http://www.victorianturkishbath.org
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What is a Victorian Turkish bath?
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Which baths are still open in the UK? www.victorianturkishbath.org/stillopen.htm
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December 9, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Sorry to hear that Frank Gehry has died - architect of one of the most beautiful buildings I’ve ever seen, the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao…
December 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
That is certainly so. You can see a bit more about this at www.victorianturkishbath.org/_3TOPICS/Ato...
December 2, 2025 at 10:49 AM
#onthisday, 1 December 1879, John Plowman opened #TurkishBaths with swimming pool & fives courts in Merton Street, #Oxford. It remained open, under several owners, till 1924. The baths feature in G S Street's novel 'The Autobiography of a boy' (www.victorianturkishbath.org/_3TOPICS/Ato...) 🗃️ #C19th
December 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
#onthisday, 1 December 1860, Dr T Airey opened 1st #Liverpool #TurkishBaths in St Anne St. Bad review in Lpool Daily Post led to reduced prices & David Urquhart's FAC member, secularist Thos Wilcock, was appointed Manager. But—badly designed & built, the baths had closed by June 1862. +ALTs 🗃️ #C19th
December 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Only 3 weeks until the days start getting longer again ⛅

Hang in there, SAD people ❤️
December 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Thomas Rowlandson, A City Chop House (1810-1815). Collection: London Museum

#art #drawing #watercolour #19thcentury #catering #foodanddrink
October 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Reading in a Landscape,1896 by Finnish painter Ada Thilen #WomensArt
November 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
#onthisday, 30 November 1868, a Dr Smith opened #TurkishBaths in #Brisbane on Albert St between Adelaide and Ann Streets. Smith soon went bust, & baths bought by Ebenezer Lethem who rebuilt them as shown in much later image. Lethem & Bird (1894 onwards) both ignored actual foundation date. 🗃️ #C19th
November 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Arthur Conan Doyle eventually sold the story, and rights, to Ward Lock & Co. for the meagre sum of £25. Today only 11 *complete* copies are known to exist and it is considered to be 'the most expensive magazine in the World' with a copy selling at auction in 2007 for $156,000 USD.
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.

Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
#onthisday, 28 November 1799, Vincenz Prießnitz (Priessnitz) died aged 52. Originally a peasant farmer, he developed the water cure (hydrotherapy) & nature cure (naturopathy.
In home-town Gräfenberg (Lázne Jeseník) nr Freiwaldau (Jeseník), now in Czechia, he established a world-famous spa. 🗃️ #C19th
November 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
#onthisday, 28 November 1878, the #CamdenTown #TurkishBaths designed by Henry Hewitt Bridgman, FRIBA, opened at 11A Kentish Town Rd.
'Of all the Turkish baths I've seen
In various countries I have been,
There's none for comfort & renown
Like the Turkish bath in Camden Town'
Closed 31.3.1916 🗃️ #C19th
November 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
#onthisday, 28 November 1867, 13 days after George Coggan opened #TurkishBaths in Commercial Rd #SheptonMallet, Mr Rumsey opened others only 3 mins walk away in High St. Had he lost a race to open 1st, or just thought his were better? We'll never know, but his baths lasted less than 2 yrs. 🗃️ #C19th
November 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Since Trump fired most of the National Park Service, the bears have to pick up the slack.

“Alaskan bear corrects a fallen roadside cone”

Credit @gunsnrosesgirl X

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March 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Books are in fact being ‘cleaned up’ as we speak.
I only buy 2nd hand books now. 📚
October 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Truth
November 17, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Woof Shadow by Tachra Design in Tehran, Iran
photo: Parham Taghioff
November 28, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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A late medieval pocket sundial from Freiburg. The portable sundial once contained a small compass in the circular recess, helping to align the sundial along the north–south axis so the correct time could be determined.

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November 28, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I wonder if @rustanddirt.bsky.social or anyone else knows whether Eerie ever had any 19th or early 20th century Victorian Turkish baths. I've not found any www.victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/... yet smaller places such as Harrisburg, Meadville, Lititz, Warren, & even Wilkes Barre had them.
https://www.victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/Lists/CUSA/USAEngState.htm—tho'
November 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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#Brussels loves comics.
November 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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24/11/1864: The birthday of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
November 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
#onthisday, 27 November 1893, #Batley Corpn added #TurkishBaths to its Public Baths opened earlier in the year. Hottest room could be raised to 220°F. Manager William Lister earned 24/- per week. In 1895, Ald. Colbeck told baths committee the Turkish was popular with doctors & parsons. +ALT 🗃️ #C19th
November 27, 2025 at 9:34 AM
And somewhere there, possibly just at the extreme left of the painting, was the celebrated #TurkishBaths, at what was then number 11, Leinster Street, where James Joyce's Leopold Bloom had a warm bath, not having time for a Turkish one. www.victorianturkishbath.org/_3TOPICS/Ato... 🗃️ #C19th
November 25, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Me with a good friend in #Brussels.
November 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM