"At the top of the oak staircase leading to the baths below,
and throughout the relaxation areas, were walnut screens with panels of coloured leaded glass in peacock blue and gold."
1.
Advertisement in The Times (11 Aug 1860) p.3
2.
Baths and bathing: a description of all the various kinds of baths, both
simple and medicated, administered at the Argyll Baths / written for the
proprietors by A Heather Bigg. London : the baths, 1885.
3.
Survey of London. London : Athlone Press, 1963. (vol.31: Parish of
Westminster; pt.2 North of Picadilly)
4.
Kelly's London Post Office directory. 1857
5.
This is tentatively based on an interpretation of the relevant entries
in the London Post Office Directory.
6.
['The new Turkish baths '] Builder (9 Feb 1895) p.98
7.
'New Turkish Bath' Building News (8 Feb 1895) p.191
8.
London overlooked / Geoffrey S Fletcher. London : Hutchinson, 1964.
p.78
9.
From an advertisement for the Northumberland Avenue Baths published in
1899.
10.
I am grateful to Roger Bowdler for a copy of his unpublished notes on
the Gallipoli Restaurant, 14 April 1992
11.
These same interlocking tiles were also used at the entrances to the
Brighton Dome and the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, where they can
still be seen.