... In a Bathing Machine visitor to Brighton many years ago objected to the high charges made bv seaside landladies. He was neither the first nor the last to do that, but he chose a new way of registering a protest. He made an arrangement with a bathing machine ...

... Old tin kettle: Wilkie Bard still wanting to Sing in opera. and providing :natty laughs in his comedy episode Th 2 bathing machine man. played in conjunction with Mrs Bard: Florence Smithson, th 2 song bird. of Old Drury. singing Rores iii Picardy ...

... Charlton, is a disarming deceiver. A magic kettle dispensing free drinks, from beers to spirits; his bathing machine mystery, complete with disappearing bathing belle, and a short course in magic for a small boy from the audience, are three entertaining items ...

... should have been called a ' bathing-machine? Like most other machines, this one had possibilities of evil, the God-fearing Corporation of that day formulated bylaws for regulating and ordering licensed bathing machines, and for punishing ...

... second Bathing Pool, on the North Side near the Corner Cafe, it is interesting to look back at the local development of this popular pastime. According to a souvenir booklet of Scar- Bathing fashions borough of nearly century ago. sea-bathing for women ...

... purpose,” and the tide iflowing till about four o'clock, the utmost enjoyment was extracted from the fleeting hours. Bathing machine proprictors, boatmen, donkey-drivers, refreshment purveyors—in fact, “all sorts and conditions” of holiday-caterers drove ...

... in order, Plates with the alphabet round the Corder. The road is brown and the sea is green. But his house is like a bathing machine. The world is round, and he can ride Rumble and splash to the other s'de, With the pedlar man I should like to roam. An ...

... of living in a childhood' dream. This i the seaside as it should be, not the bleak coast of the lodging-house and the bathing machine, but the sea ide of Robinson Crusoe and Sindbad, with yellow sands fresh swept by every tide, and the only footprints ...

... PROMPTER That's easily shitted. What carriage was it? I guess you've forgotten the number, like you did the number of your bathing machine last year. Wrong for once! I noted particularly that it was the same as the year in which Columbus discovered America ...

... to be attributed the credit of the invention. The first mention of the bathing machine in standard literature is in Smollett's Humphrey Clinker. Dr. Johnson used a bathing machine at Brighton, and he was so happy that he roared Latin inside it so loudly ...

... drowning. Although the water near the bathing machines was comparatively shallow the lady, in her nervousness, got off her feet and had gone below the water several times before she was noticed by one of the bathing machine attendants and taken ashore. Perhaps ...

... tried to improve the morals of his generation and invented the first bathing machine. Here is • descripton, written in 1138, of a curiosity of the day—one of Benjamin Beak's bathing machines ft contains a room to undrera and dress in, with a space to go ...