Victorian Turkish baths for animals:
urban workhorses:
The Great Northern Railway
at King's Cross Station, London
Signing-in for the day's work at King's Cross Station
A typical two-wheeled GNR parcels delivery van
In 1900, George Wade wrote that at King's Cross Station, the company’s London terminus, up to 1,000 heavy horses would be working at the same time. Another 300 would be off duty and resting in the stables which had been built under the goods platform. A further 185 horses worked in the passenger parcels department and 40 in railway omnibus duties and in the adjoining yard.1
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The provision of Turkish baths for urban workhorses
Turkish Baths for animals in Victorian London & Middlesex
Victorian Turkish Baths: their origin, development, and gradual decline
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