Manchester & Salford Baths & Laundries Limited:
Greengate Street Baths, Salford: company plaque
< Photo: Mike Young
The company was set up in 1855 and built its first swimming baths at Greengate Street in Salford almost immediately. Part of the building was demolished in the 20th century to make way for Trinity Way, but part remains standing.
A plaque on the wall reads:
MANCHESTER & SALFORD BATHS &
LAUNDRIES COMPANY INCORPORATED
ANNO DOMINI MDCCCLV
It seems reasonably certain that similar plaques were set into walls in all their baths. Those in Stretford Road and London Road (Mayfield) were both built in 1857 and had Turkish baths added in 1860 and 1861 respectively.
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Manchester & Salford Baths & Laundries
Victorian Turkish Baths: their origin, development, and gradual decline
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