Victorian Turkish baths for animals:
The London General Omnibus Company's animal infirmary
Victorian carriages, buses, and trams, also relied on living horse power. In 1893, the London General Omnibus Company had about 10,000 horses drawing a thousand buses1 but, unfortunately, we don’t yet know if their horse infirmary had a Turkish bath.
It is probably impossible to determine when Turkish baths for animals went out of use, but they were still being built at the end of the 19th century.
This page first published 20 November 2023
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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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