Though most famous for the unmissable It's That Man Again, Handley started as a stage comedian. Many of his ITMA sketches there were one-sided phone conversations. (Remembrance triggered by your Victoria Wood posting & not to dimninish her brilliance in any way.)

When did we first start calling them stand-up comedians? Or have we always done so? I remember being taken to see Tommy Handley in Liverpool's Picton Hall later 1940s & don't remember him being anything other than a (great) comedian. And since you mention Bury, zillions of other Liverpool comedians.

Mordecai Anielewicz, leader of the #WarsawGhettoUprising which began on the 19/04/1943. #NeverAgain

Exterior of the baths before demolition in the 1970s due to "unsafe brickwork".

Advertisement in the Burton Observer (24 July 1930) for "The famous baths of pure natural brine". Beneath the prices is printed, in larger type, TURKISH 2/6 One of the finest Turkish baths in THE MIDLANDS.

This 1960s photo shows the changing room leading off the Turkish baths cooling-room. A wide passage with the entrances to the six curtained changing/resting rooms. There are small circular occasional tables outside the dressing rooms. A clothed figure (attendant?) is in the background in the room beyond.

An interesting 3D wall plaque next to the river opposite where the Royal Brine Baths once stood. The Baths have been replaced by the Borough Council Offices and the plaque rather sadly hangs on the wall of the public toilets at a former supermarket and carpark. (Wiki Commons)

#onthisday, 19 April 1892, #Stafford Corporation opened #brine swimming & #TurkishBaths: 6 changing/rest rooms with couches off the cooling-room, 3 hot rms at c.140°F to 210°F, & a single slab shampooing rm—Warm brine baths were added before the end of the year. The baths closed 1974. +ALT 🗃️ #C19th

Drawing of the Turkish baths. Four storeys high—one more than its neighbours—the building is in the vernacular style with plain windows, six on each floor, with the entrance—up a flight of stairs—replacing one of them at the first floor level. A large TURKISH BATHS sign is mounted on the roof, protruding from which is an outsize US flag.

Advertisement from the 1882 Brooklyn Street Directory for Dr Wood's Turkish, Russian, Roman, and Electric baths. The ad boasts pure spring water, swimming pool, "Dry hand-rubbing after the bath", refreshments, smoking-room, chiropodist, manicure, and barber.

Drawing of an extension to the building proposed five years after the baths opened, but not proceded with. It would have protruded around two feet in front of the building, almost to the front of the existing entrance steps. The large keyhole arched entrance and the many similar shaped windows, together with a highly decorated top floor façade, was clearly intended to bring the imagined east to the viewer's mind.

#onthisday, 17 April 1880, the #Brooklyn Turkish Bath Company (Pres. Dr Wood) opened Victorian #TurkishBaths at 24 Clinton Street. (Wood and Eli Miller had opened the 1st Manhattan bath in 1865.) Open day & night for men; daily (except Sun.) for women. Later added Russian & Electric baths. 🗃️ #C19th

Photo shows central section of the exterior of the baths building. The beginnings of the two wings can be seen on either side, with the tall boiler chimney protruding above the one on the left. The central portion has three sections: that on the left is in the form of a spire-topped tower with a double door entrance leading to the bath-keeper's residence on the top floor and to the women's baths on the first floor; the right-hand section has an entrance marked Public Baths which leads to the men's baths. The baths comprised two swimming pools, Turkish baths, and 12 private baths for males, and a swimming pool, Turkish bath, and 6 private baths for females.

#onthisday, 16 April 1874, #Hanley Council opened public baths in Lichfield Street. They also included vapour & #TurkishBaths. A morning, afternoon or evening Turkish cost 1/6, 1/-, or 6d; vapour baths cost 6d or 2d. The Turkish closed 1980—some years after the pools. Demolished 1981. +ALT 🗃️ #C19th

Revolutionary Yiddish Singalong | Peretz Centre DJ Chaia and Dan Carkner present a sing-along introducing anti-authoritarian Jewish folk songs that are as relevant today as they were 120 years ago!

I'm teaching this workshop here in Vancouver on May 10 with my friend Chaia if you're interested. the same songs we explained online for Workers Circle a few months ago, but this time teaching people to sing them in person.

Charles Bartholomew, son of a Wiltshire farmhand, learned about Turkish baths directly from David Urquhart, opened his first in 1860, and died in 1889 leaving a chain of seven establishments around the country between Bristol and Manchester.

Map of part of Church Place, with the Turkish baths having a second entrance in Old Market Street.

Advertisement for the baths in an 1873 Cardiff directory, giving charges (2/- and 1/- including shampooing) and noting 'Ladies only on Tuesdays).

The Turkish baths closed in 1887, but the building with its entrance in Church Place is shown here in a 2014 photograph taken for the website by Harriet Eaton, Heritage Education Officer, Neath Library.

After a public meeting addressed by Charles Bartholomew, the #Neath Bath Co Ltd was formed to lease him a new #TurkishBaths. They opened #onthisday, 14 Apr 1864. (www.victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/...). It closed in 1887 showing how difficult it was for small towns to support them. 🗃️ #C19th

Exterior of the octagonal end of the baths.

Ground floor plan of the baths. The octagon, separated from the other rooms by a double door air-lock, was called the Perspiration Room. (Dundee University Archives 000000193)

Advertisement from the Dundee Courier (25 Jun 1862) is unusual in two respects. First, it is one of the few establishments that includes 'Roman Bath' in its name. Second, it is one of very few where the management has come to an arrangement with the local railway company enabling it to offer return rail tickets between the nearby railway station and Perth or Newtyle. These include a Turkish bath, and are separately priced for first, second, and third class rail passengers.

Advertisement in the Dundee Courier (6 Mar 1869) for an afternoon lecture on "The Jewish Sabbath and the Lord's Day". Several Victorian Turkish baths had halls attached where other activities could take place, following those owners belonging to David Urquhart's Foreign Affairs Committees whose baths were designed with space for political meetings.

#onthisday, 14 April 1862, Alfred Allshorn, owner of #TurkishBaths in Princes St, #Edinburgh, opened a second in Yeaman Shore, #Dundee. These included 3 "frigidaria", tepidarium, caldarium, sudatorium. slipper baths, douche & a hall. Allshorn also opened a bath in #Perth later that yr. +ALT 🗃️ #C19th

#yellowcandleuk In memory of Mosche Mostweliszker of Soly, Poland, who was murdered at Soly in 1941 aged 33 Zichrono livracha.

Newspaper advertisement in the Merthyr Telegraph and the Merthyr Express (2 Jun 1866) a few weeks after the baths opened. This suggests that after the "Great success of the Turkish baths at Merthyr" the price of the morning sessions would be reduced from 2/- to 1/6 and a booklet of 12 tickets would be reduced from 20/- to 15/-. Or, of course, it was more likely to mean that the initial prices were too high.

Advertisement in Welsh for the baths in Y Gwladgarwr (29 Jul 1881).

Photograph of the exterior of the baths with the star and crescent, and several advertising slogans, painted on the walls. The front of the building housed the manager and his wife. Behind, on the ground floor were the Turkish baths, while upstairs were the warm baths.

Advertisement from the Express Almanac and Year Book for Merthyr Tydfil, 1897 soon after the baths were taken over by William Pool. Prices are given, and the baths are recommended for sufferers from rheumatism, colds, and sciatica, &c. The ad includes two sketches: a bather "Before the bath" and the same bather "After the bath". The first sketch shows a man with a bandaged head sitting on a chair with his bandaged left leg on a support. After the bath he is shown nattily dressed and dancing a jig, with a big smile on his face. William Pool was not the only baths proprietor to use 'before and after' sketches to show the benefits of the Turkish bath.

#onthisday, 12 April 1866, Merthyr #TurkishBaths Committee opened Turkish baths & (upstairs) warm baths in a new building in Lower High St, #MerthyrTydfil, Wales (www.victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/...). Dressing & Cooling-rooms, 2 hot rooms (130° & 160°), & plunge pool. Closed c.1910 🗃️ #C19th

If any other community groups are thinking of submitting an activity, submissions are now closed for this year but I gather there will be opportunities each year. This was the first year.

Welcome | Inventories of Living Heritage in the UK Help build the Inventories of Living Heritage in the UK. From pantomime to dry-stone walling – share your community's traditions and social practices. Start your submission today.

Yesterday (Friday), with the support of bathers, baths, local authorities, historians, and experts on hot-air bathing, I posted our submission for Bathing in Victorian Turkish Baths to be included in the Unesco Inventories of Living Heritage in the UK (livingheritage.unesco.org.uk). Fingers crossed!

Longton Baths exterior. Demolished long after closure. Photo: Baths and Wash Houses Historical Archive (https://www.bathsandwashhouses.co.uk)

After 6 yrs debate, #Longton Council opened #TurkishBaths #onthisday, 11 April, in 1887 in Station Sq. Holding 20 bathers at a time, it comprised dressing/cooling-room, 2 hot rooms—the hotter at 200° F, plunge pool, and shampooing room. Minton tiles included painted panels of 4 seasons. Closed 1963.

In 2022, Sauna Aid purchased and delivered a Pixxla container sauna to a location just outside Kharkiv, near the Russian border . Here the sauna is being unloaded. To donate, or just to find out more visit https://sauna-aid.com/

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Bathing can be an act of resistance, a way to reclaim the body, restore dignity, & stay human when all around you is breaking down. Sauna Aid, co-founded by Mikkel Aaland, brings mobile saunas to communities facing war, displacement, and loss and offering a place to sit, breathe, & reset. (See ALT)

Congrats. Look forward to it. The place that famously never had a Victorian Turkish bath. Hmm.

Horse and large-wheeled contraption being driven flat out

Muybridge giving a talk in front of one of his projected images, on the cover of the Illustrated London News

Born in Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey #OnThisDay 1830, Eadweard James Muybridge, famous for having captured the earliest scenes of horses and other animals (including humans) in motion. victorianweb.org/photos/muybr...
#photography #film

Marx on Easter Monday 1866 in Margate- very bad weather, lots of Cockneys Marx on Easter Monday 1866 in Margate- very bad weather Marx to Engels April 2nd 1866 5 Lansell’s Place Margate The weather has been very bad here for several days, as if it had been made especiall…

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Whatever some people might say, surely one of the best introductions to "classical" music ever, and not just for kids. I saw it when it first came out in Liverpool, then again at London's Studio One. Image of my leaflet from the later stereo version. (Dear archivist, please forgive fold in centre.)

Bathe like a local: Oslo Fjord Sweat legend Mikkel Aaland on the buoyant Norwegian steam scene and its global influence on urban waterfront regeneration.

Bathe like a local: Oslo Fjord
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Typographic image: advertisement from the Bolton Chronicle (24 March 1862) announcing the opening of First, Second and Third Class Turkish baths costing 2/-, 1/-, and 6d. Ladies' Days on Wednesdays. The ad misprints proprietor Thomas Whitaker's forename initial as a J.

A later advertisement for the baths in the Bolton Chronicle (14 October 1865) by which time Whitaker has sold his baths to the Bolton Turkish Bath Co Ltd for whom he manages them. The ad is in the form of three separate classified ads placed above each other. The first is headed: 'To invalids who cannot travel - In the Turkish bath you will find all the good effects of climate for diseases of the chest'. This is followed by: 'The Turkish bath and a clean skin', and the last one: The Turkish bath and lengthened life'. There are now only two classes of bath.

A woodcut image of an exterior view of the Convoluted Stove. The air being heated is completely separated from the combustion fumes of the fire heating it.

Two woodcut diagrammatic images of the interior of the stove. It gradually became the industry standard, as well as being used to heat large buildings such as Manchester’s original Free Trade Hall.

#onthisday, 5 April 1862, Thomas Whitaker opened #TurkishBaths at 30 Higher Bridge St, #Bolton. After several later owners, baths closed c.1892. Whitaker worked with Joseph Constantine patenting their Convoluted Stove which became the industry standard for Tbs. #constructionhist #C19th 🗃️

Wood engraving of Queen Victoria in 1880 by an unknown artist, published in L’Illustration nationale (Belgium), 20 April 1880. (Wikimedia Commons)

Exterior of the Friedrichsbad in Baden-Baden, 1879, engraved by Joseph Weber.

Sepia photo of the men's cooling-room, probably early in the 20th century. A man sits, reading a newspaper, while three others recline on loungers. Each wall is faced with similar decorative square tiles about half way up, and then surmounted by a different semi-circular rural image created with individual tiles. There is a drinking fountain on one of the walls. There is also an open door and a wider opening with drawn curtains, but it is not clear where these lead.

A wall plaque in use in the 1990s listing the 16 "suggested" stages of using the Roman-Irish bath (Bains Romains-Irlandais), and the time to be spent at each stage. 15 minutes is recommended in the 1st hot room at 54°C and 5 minutes in the second hot room at 68°C. Apart from the body soap and massage, the only untimed stage is the cold water immersion bath at 18°C! In practice bathers use the baths at their own pace.

#onthisday, 5 April 1880, Queen Victoria visited & was shown round—but didn't bathe in—the glorious, still open, #Friedrichsbad #TurkishBaths in #Baden-Baden. The Römisch-Irisches Bad opened 1877 & cost 1.5 million DM to make it "surpass those known hitherto".
So sad
WE have no VictoriaBad.
🗃️ #C19th

The Cellist (Portrait of Upaupa Scheklud)

The Cellist (Portrait of Upaupa Scheklud)
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#onthisday, 2 April 1877, Daniel Routledge opened #TurkishBaths in Abbey Road, #Barrow-in-Furness. 2 hot rooms, plunge pool, 20+ slipper baths &—following yr—swimming pool, later adding ice rink & other facilities. Closed c.1911. In 1912 Council mooted proposals for Tbs on site, but no go. 🗃️ #C19th

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Philosopher Hannah Arendt discussing the use of deceptive propaganda used by the Nazis and other totalitarian movements.

#hannaharendt #totalitarianism #philosophy #moralphilosophy #truth #propaganda #misinformation #disinformation #authoritarianism #lies #criticalthinking

Are we soon going to see Google Books disappear?

Flint cottage from Gravel Hill.

Clever casing for the security camera in North Street.

Once upon a time someone had thought how sensible it would be if there was a Royal Mail service which ran Post Offices where people could buy postage stamps and post letters. This one in North Street was blown away by a draught.

Lych gate in Church Road where coffins sheltered from the rain before progressing to the Leatherhead Parish Church graveyard where Anthony Hope (Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins), author of 'The Prisoner of Zenda', is buried.

#architecture Daughter and I wend our way back home from our #Leatherhead walk last Sunday. See ALT+ for locations.

Church Street (1). Now what on earth did that look like when it was first built?

Church Street (2). Something large made here?

At the back of Flint Cottages, off Gravel Hill.

Gravel Hill. Archway at the end of the War Memorial Gardens.

#architecture An afternoon walk on Sunday with my daughter in #Leatherhead looking at buildings and openings. See ALTs for locations.

Not only are doors and doorways in many of the buildings in Barcelona are interesting and beautiful to look at but windows are, too. #architecture #windows #barcelona #streetphotography #photography

Thanks for the re-post.