Wigzell's Hairdressers and Turkish
baths
Oxford Street, Sydney, Australia, 1883
< Image: reproduced from a hand-coloured
print originally published as a black and white engraving in the Sydney
illustrated news.
Charles Edward Wigzell established his hair salon in Oxford Street, Sydney, in 1854 and some time later added baths and showers. The Turkish baths, in the smaller adjacent building on the right, opened in 1883.
This item is from the collection of the Victorian Turkish Baths Project
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Urquhart and the London Hammam. Part 1: introduction
Victorian Turkish Baths: their origin, development, and gradual decline
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