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
