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HONOURED BY MARGATE

... successful business men. Pettman started work helping his mother carry on a bathing machine business at Newgate Gap. Alderman Pettman developed the undertaking until Pettman’s Bathing Establishment,” which extended to Walpole Bay, was known to thousands of ...

Published: Friday 19 September 1941
Newspaper: Thanet Advertiser
County: Kent, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 152 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

HONOURED BY MARGATE

... business men. Alderman Pettman started work by helping his mother carry on a bathing machine business at Newgate Gap. Alderman Pettman developed the undertaking until ■’ Pettmau’s Bathing Establishment,” which extended to Walpole Bay, was known to thousands ...

Published: Tuesday 23 September 1941
Newspaper: Thanet Advertiser
County: Kent, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 313 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

An 18th Century Christmas Sequence PITT CONCLUDING FOURTH MONTH – A Guildhall Banquet

... celebrated royal bathes at Weymouth. A recent request from the Shepherds Bush art department for info?. 'nation On the King's historic Bathing Pavilion has resulted in details front West Country readers. George Ill's personal bathing machine is now a summer ...

Published: Thursday 13 November 1941
Newspaper: Kinematograph Weekly
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 330 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

Jan. :Wth, IH-1-0. formed the entrance to his baths. According to Faulkner, the historian of Chelsea, he spent ..

... when taking baths was the fashionable panacea, when George 11l was ,·isiting Weymouth and stepping out of a bathing machine into the salt water to the strains of God Save the King and Rule, Britannia. Dominiceti's prescriptions of hot baths imbued with ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1940
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 536 | Page: 32 | Tags: none

Scoreboard

... ns. When my play wants tightening up (as Bernard Shaw observed when the bottom dropped out of Act 3 in his Love in a Bathing Machine I seek the company of the best golfers. Snobbish, you say ...

Published: Wednesday 06 August 1947
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 659 | Page: 23 | Tags: Illustrations 

WITH THE R. A. F. in FRANCE

... likely to come upon a sentry behind an innocent-looking bush and then to start wondering why he should be guarding a tall bathing machine. A little iarther on, the visitor doubles up beneath strange flapping curtains of netting. It is now possible to raise ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1036 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

Letter From Florida

... district other than Briny Breezes Trailer Camp, the biggest congregation of motor gipsies in the U.S.A., and, of course, the bathing machine imported from Trouville by Mr. Harvey S. Ladew, nephew of the late Berry Wall, who ornamented Trouville before Deauville ...

Published: Wednesday 19 March 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1216 | Page: 18, 19 | Tags: Photographs 

jolts, testers Gossip

... descri bes mixture. It smoked quickly. who used to tend them had George M.'s first bathe. he says, but the flavour was sterner tasks in hand. The King's bathing machine much more tolerable than he Be now most holiday was followed out to sea by a had ...

Published: Saturday 12 July 1947
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1253 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A TRAGIC AFFAIR

... BATHERS At meeting of'Broad stairs Bier and Harbour Commissioners the Harbour Vaster reported that touting on the lands hy bathing .machine proprietors was nearly as bad a« ever. The Clerk stated that be had written to Vr. Marsh and Mrs. Dreyfus warning them ...

Published: Friday 08 August 1941
Newspaper: Thanet Advertiser
County: Kent, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 926 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE WAR HAS NO PLACE IN THIS WEEK'S SELECTION: Regency Odds and Ends; The Parson's Wife through the Ages; H. E. ..

... semi-marine village or hamlet of Southend and an amusing sidelight on Wey mouth, with George III crack ing lewd jokes in a bathing- machine. Behind the footlights Mrs. Siddons was braving the necessities of retirement in the face of the challenge of new stars ...

Published: Saturday 27 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1880 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

FLYING BOMB WRECKED THEIR HOME

... costume which Is usually supplied by bathing machine proprietors to their customers. 1 his position was not the pleasantest. The police boat was summoned to his assistance and he was conveyed back to his 1 machine. MINSTER’S SPURT Salute the Soldier Target ...

Published: Tuesday 18 July 1944
Newspaper: Thanet Advertiser
County: Kent, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1660 | Page: 3 | Tags: none