Victorian Turkish Baths Picture of the Month for September 2006
Ben Rhydding Hydropathic
Establishment:
the Roman baths, c.1861
Ben Rhydding was opened on 29 May 1844 by Hamer Stansfield, a former Mayor of Leeds. He had visited, and been impressed by, Graeffenberg Spa and built his own in Ilkley at a cost of £30,000.
The Turkish baths, or Roman baths as they were more correctly called, cost a further £2,000 and were built at the establishment some time around 1859, only three years or so after the first Turkish baths were built at St. Ann's by Dr Barter.
Victorian Turkish Baths: their origin, development, and gradual decline
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