Royal Gloster and Promenade Room, Southampton Beach, near the Platform.
Hot, Cold, Shower, and the only Medicated, Vapour, and Shampooing Baths in the South West of England.
The Proprietor most respectfully informs the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public generally that these beautiful and elegant BATHS have been fitted up at an immense expense, and with every attention to the comfort and convenience of Visitors. The Hot Baths are of solid marble, and fitted up in the most modern manner, with convenient dressing and waiting rooms ; each bath being supplied with at least 150 gallons of pure sea water. The Shower Baths are on a new and improved principle, by which the force and quantity of the water can be regulated and made to any degree of heat. The Medicated, Vapour, and Shampooing Baths since their introduction into this country, have so often superseded medical assistance in a variety of disorders attending the human body, particularly the most inveterate Scorbutic and Skin Diseases, Rashes, Eruptions, Gouty and Rheumatic Affections, Stiff Joints, and all those disorders dependent on a morbid circulation of blood, yield to the influence of these celebrated baths. The valuable assistance the proprietor has acquired, combined with his own personal attention, he flatters himself these superior baths will be raised to that scale of eminence to which they are justly entitled.
The Royal Gloucester Promenade and Subscription Room is regularly supplied with the London morning and evening papers, the Weekly Court Journal, and Provincial News, periodical publications, &c.—Refreshments provided and may be had the Bar, at moderate charges.
Gentlemen and Ladies visiting Southampton, are respectfully invited to visit the interior of these baths, when every attention will be shown them.
THOS. HOYSTROP, Proprietor
Southampton, Aug. 8th, 1829.
N.B.—The Ladies' Baths are under the immediate attention of Mrs. HOYSTROP.
The Salisbury and Winchester Journal, 24 Aug 1829, p. 1
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Thomas Hoystrop died aged 33 years (burial record).
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Died, a few days since, Mr. Thos. Hoystrop, of Godfrey's Town, and late guide of the Southampton baths. He has left a young family to deplore his loss.
The Salisbury and Winchester Journal, 5 Aug 1833, p. 4
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