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Finally tried a Turkish bath after years of avoiding it 😅 Going topless, rough scrubs, $11 well spent! 🛁✨

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Looking for the perfect spot to unwind? Whether you’re a Miami local or a visitor, Hürrem Hammam is your destination for unparalleled relaxation. Extend your experience with a visit to our Topkapi restaurant and enjoy exquisite Ottoman cuisine in a serene setting.

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🚰 Ottoman Hammam (Bath) Faucets, 18-19th Century #Faucet #Historical #TurkishBath

✏️ Vestiary and Resting Room of the Çinili Hammam (Turkish Bath), 1844 #Hamam #TurkishBath #TurkishBaths

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#OnThisDay—27 Jan in 1896—Public Baths, with a #TurkishBath department, were opened by #Burslem Corporation. 'Elegant Moorish doorways' separated the 2 hot rms, cooling & shampooing rms, Russian vapour bath—all wall tiled & with encaustic tiled floor—& plunge. A Turkish bath attendant was paid 27/- per wk, & a women's shampooer 5/- per day. A Turkish bath cost 1/-, or 6d. after 4.00 p.m.
Turkish baths appear in wks by T bather #arnoldbennett, gt chronicler of the Five Towns.
#histodons #bathing

Drawing (possibly blueprint) of the Moorland Road elevation of the building with three entrances on the left (1st Class. 2nd Class, & Ladies)[!]. To the right of the stepped doors are two windows, behind which was the cooling-room. Image from Staffordshire Archives and Heritage.

Plan (possibly blueprint) of the Turkish baths suite of the Moorland Road Public Baths. To the left are the first large hot room, shampooing room, and Russian vapour bath. Below are the smaller and hotter hot room, boiler flue, and plunge bath. To the right is the cooling and dressing room.
Below the baths are shown stairs and slipper baths from the main part of the building.
Image from Staffordshire Archives and Heritage.

#OnThisDay—26 January 1863—John Treble opened a #TurkishBath at 4 Mansion Terrace, St David's Hill, #Exeter, opposite the 'Blind Asylum'. Though 'replete with every essential', it was actually 6 months before showers were fitted.
Joseph Ball became the owner in 1872, and the baths closed briefly in 1880 shortly after his death. His wife Anne then continued them until her death in 1891. The Turkish baths had 2 hot rooms, a cooling-room, a shampooing room, dressing room, and showers.
#histodons

Advertisement in the Exeter Flying Post (21 Jan 1863) announces opening date, and times and charges for separate men's and women's sessions.

Small section of coloured street map showing location of the baths opposite the labelled 'Blind Asylum'.

@HarrietRichardson @histodons For anyone wishing to find out more about the #TurkishBath at Lochhead Hydro mentioned in this interesting piece on hydros, there's an illustrated article at http://www.victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/AtoZEstab/Hydros/AbHydroLock/AbHydroLockEng.htm

Half-height portrait of a seated long-white-bearded "Dr" Munro wearing a suit.

Vignette of "oriental-styled" Turkish baths building added to the Lochhead Hydro in Aberdeen. Shown are a long and a short wall, each with an arched colonnade. Over roughly two thirds of the area is an arched roof. On the other part is a dome topped by a cupola. Behind is the upper part of a decorated chimney from the boiler house. Around the building, at various corners, are eight pseudo-minaret-shaped spindly columns, each topped with a star and crescent. There are trees, bushes and gardeners tending the flower beds. A couple with a dog walk along a wide path in the foreground.

#OnThisDay—26 December 1860— less than six months after London's first Victorian #TurkishBath opened in Bell Street, near Marble Arch, fixture merchant William Turner set one up at 17 Goswell Road to be managed by his son-in-law Samuel Curry. (More info at http://www.victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/AtoZEstab/London/Goswell1/Goswell1Eng.htm.)
Small, but successful, it moved down the road to No.282 to expand and be closer to the centre, the following year. The larger baths remained open till just before World War II.
#histodons #Clerkenwell

Advertisement from the Clerkenwell News of 9 January 1861 suggesting that the Turkish Bath is "a Preventative and Cure of Diseases" and "The Baths are furnished with everything requisite for the Bathers". They are open from 8 am to 5 pm at 2/- and from 6 to 8 pm at 1/-. After 14 January the baths will be open to ladies only on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2 to 6 pm and from 6 to 8 pm at the same prices.

The 11 minute walk between the first and second baths is shown on a cut from the modern online Google map.

@Liz The Victorian #TurkishBath was always hot dry air. There may also have been a separate vapour/steam/Russian bath provided as an additional facility—like the sitz bath or the hot and cold (water) baths— but this was not part of the Turkish bath process.
#histodons

A text reads:

Dr J L Thudichum, in an 1861 lecture at the Royal Society of Medicine, referred to the ancient Roman baths, on which, after their destruction and absence for hundreds of years, the new Victorian Turkish bath was modelled, saying:

The discovery that was lost and has been found again, is this, in the fewest possible words: The application of hot air to the human body. It is not wet air, nor moist air, nor vapoury air; it is not vapour in any shape or form whatever. It is an immersion of the whole body in hot common air.

If you are into #queerhistory in #Victorian #London or the #Trollope short story The #TurkishBath, you might find of interest my illustrated piece on 'Sexual activity in the Jermyn Street Hammam in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: some problems arising from the use of fiction as a source of evidence in literary and historical studies'.
Last revised in 2019, It can be found at
http://www.victorianturkishbath.org/_3TOPICS/AtoZTopics/Social/GaySex/1IntroEng.htm

#histodons #19thcentury

Joan Hassall's wood engraving of Trollope as editor listening to Molloy in the Jermyn Street Hammam from the Folio Society edition of 'Mary Gresley, and other stories'

Section and ground floor plan of the Jermyn Street Hammam.

Two Jermyn Street Hammam attendants in Turkish costume standing next to 'modesty tent' lowered over naked bather as he leaves the plunge pool in the cooling-room.

Another picture from my Flickr albums, this time from a walk in the City of London. This Turkish bath house was built in 1895 and is now surrounded, and dwarfed, by modern office blocks.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jim_easterbrook/52016431677/
#Photography #London #TurkishBath

A small building clad in brightly coloured tiles. The nearest end is octagonal shaped and has a small tower with an onion dome on top. Modern tower blocks loom over the building.

#OnThisDay—14 Nov in 1859—the world's only #Victorian #TurkishBath to be owned by a Co-operative (#Coop) Society was opened, with the help of the Rochdale Pioneers and David Urquhart's Foreign Affairs Committees, at Church Lane, under the management of #secularist Joseph Jagger. http://www.victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/AtoZEstab/England/RochCo-op/RochCo-opEng.htm
#histodons

On #Hammams in #Turkey in particular and #PublicBaths in general:

"Is It Strange To Say I Miss The Bodies Of Strangers?", The New York Times Magazine (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/magazine/turkish-baths-istanbul.html).

#Istanbul #TurkishBath #Bath #NewYork #Health #Hygiene #CoronaVirus #COVID19 #Pandemic

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