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Victorian Turkish Baths: their origin, development, and gradual decline
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TNA: PRO: BT31 15073/31341 All unfootnoted information is taken from this file.
1890 Capital: £3,000 divided into 3,000 shares of £1 (25 April)
Objects include: to carry on the business of Turkish Baths proprietors and to carry out the agreement (21 April 1890) between William Tew Holland and Eli Heyworth (for the Company) '(...for the sale and purchase, at or in consideration of a perpetual yearly rent charge, of a freehold plot of land situate on the southerly side of Richmond Terrace...) and to erect buildings thereon, and to establish, maintain, and conduct there a Turkish Bath.'
Subscribers:
Bickerdike, William Edward (Manufacturing chemist)
Dixon, Charles (Cotton spinner)
Heyworth, Eli (Ch) (Cotton manufacturer)
Kay, William (Cotton manufacturer)
Reynolds, Walter (Theatrical proprietor)
Sutton, Frederick Olinthas (Clerk in Holy Orders)
Thom, William (Engineer)
Memorandum of Association: 28 April
Registered Office: 11 Richmond Terrace
Secretary: Thomas Kenyon (4 September)
Shareholders include:
Bickerdike, William Edward (100 shares)
Dunbar, Robert Pearson (100 shares) MD
Heyworth, Eli (200 shares)
Kay, William (100 shares)
Kenyon, Thomas (10 shares) Broker
Stones, James Herbert (100 shares) Architect (10 Richmond Terrace)
Thom, William (200 shares)
Yates, William (100 shares) Engineer
1895 Shareholders include:
Heyworth, Eli (292 shares)
Kay, William (110 shares)
1900 Shareholders include:
Thom, William (263 shares)
1901 Directors:
Dixon, Charles
Greenwood, William (Cotton manufacturer)
Heyworth, Eli
Kay, William
Porter, George (Solicitor)
Stones, James Herbert
Thom, William
1904 Wilberforce Hamer replaces Eli Heyworth (Died) as governor
1905 Directors:
Dixon, Charles
Greenwood, William
Hamer, Wilberforce
Kay, William
Porter, George
Stones, James Herbert
Thom, William
1908 Mortgage: on land and building for £650
Directors:
Dixon, Charles
Forrest, Thomas (Cotton spinner)
Greenwood, William
Hamer, Wilberforce
Kay, William
Porter, George
Thom, William
Woolfall, Daniel (Clerk to Commission of Taxes)
Directors:
Dixon, Charles
Forrest, Thomas
Greenwood, William
Hamer, Wilberforce
Kay, William
Porter, George
Thom, William (725 shares)
Woolfall, Daniel
1915 Mortgage: at £300
1918 Directors:
Forrest, Thomas
Hare, Charles
Kay, William
Porter, George
Thom, William
Woolfall, Daniel
1919 Mortgage: at £100
Directors:
Aspden, Harry
Forrest, Thomas
Hare, Charles
Kay, William
Thom, William, Sir
1920 Registered Office: 16 Richmond Terrace (16 February)
Voluntary liquidation: 6 March
1921 Winding up meeting (14 October)
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04 November 2018
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