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Rochdale hamam Xmas Do:December 14th 2007 :

Rochdale hamam Xmas Do:December 14th 2007

Updated: Dec 27, 2007 9:41am PST

Super League Grand Final:Old Trafford:13th Oct.2007:Leeds Vs St.Helens. :

Super League Grand Final:Old Trafford:13th Oct.2007:Leeds Vs St.Helens.

Updated: Oct 14, 2007 6:23am PST

Steve's 60th Birthday.Royton.Sept 15th 2007 :

Steve's 60th Birthday.Royton.Sept 15th 2007

Updated: Sep 16, 2007 5:19am PST

John+my birthday meal 27th july 2007 :

John+my birthday meal 27th july 2007

Updated: Jul 27, 2007 5:58pm PST

John,s Photos 15th June 2007 :

John,s Photos 15th June 2007

Updated: Aug 13, 2007 1:48pm PST

25th may 2007 :

25th may 2007

Updated: May 25, 2007 5:19pm PST

Aiden's 60th Birthday Curry :March 9th 2007 :

Aiden's 60th Birthday Curry :March 9th 2007

Updated: Mar 10, 2007 5:29am PST

THE PRODUCERS.Peter Kay.March 3rd 2007 Palace Theatre,Manchester :

THE PRODUCERS.Peter Kay.March 3rd 2007 Palace Theatre,Manchester

Updated: Mar 04, 2007 6:50am PST

Hamam Xmas Meal 2006 :

Hamam Xmas Meal 2006

Updated: Dec 16, 2006 4:26am PST

BOB's 50th Birthday ,Rochdale 24th November 2006 :

BOB's 50th Birthday ,Rochdale 24th November 2006

Updated: Nov 25, 2006 5:51am PST

Old Trafford 14th October 2006 Hull FC Vs Saint Helens :

Old Trafford 14th October 2006 Hull FC Vs Saint Helens

Updated: Oct 15, 2006 5:32am PST

Rugby League Challenge Cup Final~Twickenham 26th August 2006 :

Rugby League Challenge Cup Final~Twickenham 26th August 2006

Updated: Aug 28, 2006 3:06am PST

Andy's 40th Birthday.Todmorden Hipperdrome. March 25th 2006 :

Andy's 40th Birthday.Todmorden Hipperdrome. March 25th 2006

Updated: Mar 25, 2006 4:59pm PST

JONGLEURS:MANCHESTER 22may 2004 : Several Groups.Cherry&The Chinese Mafia:Steve & family & The Work's Crew.Not really an "hamam-thing" but hard to catagories this bunch of photos.

JONGLEURS:MANCHESTER 22may 2004

Several Groups.Cherry&The Chinese Mafia:Steve & family & The Work's Cr ...

Updated: Dec 27, 2005 11:49am PST

CARDIFF 2003 : Rugby League cup final weekend with The Jolly Boys

CARDIFF 2003

Rugby League cup final weekend with The Jolly Boys

Updated: Jan 08, 2007 12:46pm PST

Rugby Grand Final.Old Trafford.Manchester. 15th October 2005 :

Rugby Grand Final.Old Trafford.Manchester. 15th October 2005

Updated: Oct 16, 2005 5:30am PST

The Rochdale Hamam : I,ve been going to Rochdale since 1985. CLICK HERE to visit a website charting the History of Turkish Baths in Britain. click for Rochdale's (crap!) Website! also. here is some background info on saunas in general. In old times, the sauna was known as the Finnish cure or the poor man's pharmacy. It was also the hospital where folk healers practised their art. They administered baths and massage, and drew blood; cupping was another method to suck bad blood away. The healer woman who went from house to house was a very important person; the darkness of the sauna helped her to develop a power of suggestion over her patient. The sauna was also a place for performing magic, mostly to do with healing or love affairs. At Whitsuntide and Midsummer the marriageability of young women was improved by special sauna baths; the smell of herbs and birch-leaves hung in the air and the wise woman recited her spells. Sauna baths were also believed to be useful for improving virility. In the countryside women usually gave birth in the sauna. For example, our long time president Urho Kaleva Kekkonen was born in a smoke sauna in 1900. After a birth the sauna was assigned to the mother as her resting place for several weeks. There were strict rules, strongly influenced by the magic tradition, for the baby's first bath. This was administered by the woman who attended to bathers and also served as a midwife, and it was believed to determine the basic features of the child's future personality. The sauna was also the place where the dead were prepared for their last journey. The sauna was part of Finnish people's lives literally from cradle to grave................... FROM: http://www.sauna.fi/englanti/englanti.html Also click to Read:Irish Sweathouses & The Great Forgetting ".............One of the Ottoman inventions was to “parboil” thousands of Greeks in Turkish baths and then send them, barely clothed, on death marches in the snow, to die of pneumonia and other related sicknesses. Parboiling avoided spilling blood (whereas using axes and spades to slaughter the victims was bloody), nor bullets, which were too expensive. ..........."from: Clean: An Unsanitised History of Washing by Katherine Ashenburg

The Rochdale Hamam

I,ve been going to Rochdale since 1985. CLICK HERE to visit a website ...

Updated: Apr 21, 2008 3:12am PST

Rochdale Tony's 50th birthday meal may 10th 2008 :

Rochdale Tony's 50th birthday meal may 10th 2008

Updated: May 10, 2008 4:47am PST