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.
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Turkish baths at Imperial Hotel
They had newsletters in 2013 but since then they seem to have gone quiet with even their website, www.fbwra.co.uk, not functioning.
The only reference we could find to this society was on the website of the National Churchill Museum which has some documents in its 'Environics Collection' which is about how St Mary the Virgin Al...
This is a very vague indication of who erected the plaque for P.D. James. We'd guess it's a group of local residents.
A local resident said that this plaque (and the one next door, to William McMillan) is spurious and was erected by developers purely to b...
This bomb was one of those dropped during the first daylight bombing attack on London by a fixed-wing aircraft. Prior to this the bombs had been dropped from Zeppelins. Just before noon the bomb br...
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