The Friends of Carlisle Victorian and Turkish Baths took 20 lucky people back in time m with a tour of Carlisle s historic James Street Baths. As part of their campaign to save and develop the Baths as a Health and Wellbeing Centre, the Friends group organised two tours of the Grade II listed Turkish Baths on Sunday 1 August. The 40 minute tours took the visitors back in time, painting a picture of the James Street area as it was in the 1800s with rows of terraced houses interspersed with mills and factories and overshadowed by the gas works on the banks of the Caldew River.