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My first Turkish bath was intense. The scrubbing, the foam, the marble... Worth every lira 💆‍♀️

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#travel #turkiye #turkey #turkishhammam #turkishbath #turkishhamam #hammam #wanderlust

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

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

#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

#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

#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

#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

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