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Scarborough Public Bath Company Limited
Company baths: SCARBOROUGH: Bland's Cliff Public Baths
As handwriting is often unclear,
all name transcriptions below are indicative only.
When accuracy is important, the original documents should be consulted.
PRO (Public Record Office) documents are at The National Archives, Kew.
The company was set up in 1858 and opened purpose-built sea-water swimming baths (together with slipper and vapour baths) the following year. Turkish baths occupied an extension to the building which opened in 1863.
TNA: PRO: BT31 330/1171 All unfootnoted information is taken from this file.
1858 Memorandum of Association
Chairman: Richard Cross, MD
1904 Company ceased trading: February
Dissolved under Clause 7(4)
This page last updated 04 November 2018
Victorian Turkish Baths: their origin, development, and gradual decline
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