The picture shows the frigidarium, with statues in niches near the tops of the columns.
The Turkish baths, constructed as part of the 1913 extension to the Imperial Hotel, were the subject of an early campaign by the Victorian Society, which failed and the baths were demolished, with the rest of the hotel, in 1966. But the statues were rescued and now sit in the courtyard of the new hotel, just down Russell Square, at Imperial Hotel - statues.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Turkish baths at Imperial Hotel
There were 4 mediaeval manorial boundary crosses in Croydon: Hand Cross, Hern or Hurn Cross, Stay or Stake Cross, and one of unknown name. They marking out one hundred acres of the old town of Croy...
Irish political, community and gay rights activist. Born Oldham but grew up in Northern Ireland. With his friend Mike Jackson he formed and raised funds for the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners...
Person, Community / Clubs, Gender Issues, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare, Ireland
At Arts and Humanities Research Council we found a brief biography of Leonard (1914-2004) which includes: "In 1951 he and his family moved to Bedford Park, Chiswick (the first garden suburb) where ...
Tenants and residents association in Rotherhithe, based in Mayflower Hall, 1 Neptune Street, SE16, on the site of Rotherhithe Old Town Hall.
Pioneer participant in the Notting Hill Carnival. Known as ‘Maubert the Pan Man’ Aubrey ‘Boss’ Bryan came from Guyana in 1964 and settled in the UK in the Croydon area. A Steelpan craftsman and pl...
Publishing house founded by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. It grew from a hobby to become a business, publishing the works of the members of the Bloomsbury Group and books on psychoanalysis and foreig...
There are 937 names, listed alphabetically (with a few out of sequence) in 11 columns. These names were in the original WW1 memorial whi...
The first municipal car park in St Marylebone was unveiled in 1965.
Chairman {sic} of The Memorial Gates Trust. She was born as Shreela Rai on 13 February 1934 in Lahore, Punjab, British India (now Pakistan), the daughter of Aftab Rai (d.1972) and Krishna Rai (d.1...
Area of London, approximately within Bethnal Green, Bow and Stepney Green. It was established to provide for the expanding population of Huguenot and Irish silk weavers. A track running north from ...
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