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[A well-known writer commented recently upon the dullness of Britain's modes of amusement. But the following ..

... flutter. Morning and afternoon music and bathing hold sway, for it is not only in the morning that swimming is permissible. Instead of an uncomfortable bathing machine, we undress in canvas huts, where foot baths of steaming hot water are provided on returning ...

Published: Thursday 08 October 1908
Newspaper: Pearson's Weekly
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 267 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... he boys scale the wall, and run through a gate which they slain to itier them. At the seaside the truants get into a bathing machine and :Hack a poor girl with towels, while one of their number jumps on the rse's back and takes :he whole concern seawards ...

Published: Thursday 22 October 1908
Newspaper: Kinematograph Weekly
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 377 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

CROMER DISTRICT

... fault of the element* if owner* rowing and other light craft did not have good time, and certainly vho beach tent and bathing machine were very much in demand. The shore nen, a* the tide ebbed, pail* and deck cUaiiw. and bat and bull Ci-ioe to the front—was ...

Published: Saturday 08 August 1908
Newspaper: Norfolk News
County: Norfolk, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 499 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

EPIORTIIMANUFACIIIRINGO

... his ship. ilepworth's also issue AN UNFORTUNATE BATHE. Two elderly men are entering a bathing machine to prepare for a dip, and the sight puts two girls up to mischief, and they engage the next machine. The kiddies watch the old men busily bobbing up ...

Published: Thursday 24 September 1908
Newspaper: Kinematograph Weekly
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 574 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

BOGNOR OBSERVER. VISITORS' LIST AND WEST SUSSEX RECORDER. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 23. 1908. PUBLIC NOTICES. READY! ..

... was witnessed by a bathing machine attendant, named Alfred Cluer, who lives at 5, St. John's Terrace, Bognor. His version of the occurrence was that about 1.30 p.m„ on September 7th, he drew deceased into the water in a bathing machine. It was then about ...

Published: Wednesday 23 September 1908
Newspaper: Bognor Regis Observer
County: Sussex, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2626 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... great day when visitors to the British seaside, bath ing in all humility at shfpenoe a head, return to a motor van, change into their street costumes behind need curtains, and cry, Go ahead ! to the machine man without fear of being battered and bruised ...

Published: Friday 07 August 1908
Newspaper: East of Fife Record
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 936 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HALIFAX EVENING COURIER, TUESDAY; AUGUST 4; ItlCB. ,BITS FROM THE BRINY.; 4 Althea sever bees bay ties It se. ..

... .k., and with randale un their feet. Fie y sands yerterday were very gay with daintily.tieted bathing tents &tied thickly shout:sad morns very chic bathing oostatnes were worn. Rank Holiday at Scarborough has broken all ramirda. Two ihouvand bathers were ...

Published: Tuesday 04 August 1908
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 886 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... some unexplainable reason, had got into dilficulties, and although he uttered no cry for help, Henry William Cole, a bathing 'machine attendant, swam out with • man named Henry Limey, of Ilk Nelson Bow, who bad been fishing on the Beet Street groyne, ...

Published: Wednesday 07 October 1908
Newspaper: Brighton Gazette
County: Sussex, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1270 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE BOURNEMOUTH GRAPHIC

... and of course you can't bathe from the parade unless you hire a bathing machine or tent. The result is the natives must go a mile or so out of their way round these curmudgeon castles,' or take a bath early or late, or not bathe at all. ...

Published: Thursday 23 July 1908
Newspaper: Bournemouth Graphic
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1437 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Miniature Rifle Club

... ret-peetable. Northwards a completly clear course was observed as far as the Chapel of Eae, save for another disused bathing machine, facing Market-street. which served as the business place of a harness-maker. Montague-street was straggling and incomplete ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1908
Newspaper: Worthing Gazette
County: Sussex, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3156 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HERE AND THERE. (By C.T.P.)

... ne players were not twice as smart as Sheerness! 2. —lf it would not be better to see the bathing machines wound up from the liquid than see the bathing machine company wound up in liquidation ? 3.—-Ifa spo«-h delivered by a manager to school children ...

IUTHING AT BEXHILL. esent is proving the most successu from the haulers’ and bathing . proprietors’ point view ..

... minute, rhaps if a boat were kept parading oat the bathing machines, visitors limited powers of endurance in the might be encouraged take longer There is but a minimum of r. it is true, as the bathing atten. who are good swimmers, keep a eye on their customers ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1908
Newspaper: Bexhill-on-Sea Observer
County: Sussex, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1902 | Page: 3 | Tags: none