t t) ® when Scarborough was at Ijtfil its height as a Victorian spa town, a bathing machine assistant often

... t t) ® when Scarborough was at Ijtfil its height as a Victorian spa town, a bathing machine assistant often warned visitors not to swim on a Friday as that was when most accidents happened ® a negative attitude towards any Friday is reflected in typical ...

Published: Friday 13 July 2001
Newspaper: Scarborough Evening News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 140 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

6 – Saturday 5 February 2000 Memory Lane & T T – T Wik Midelfersen i’ Grand history of a humble garden shed

... first bathing machine. It has emerged that it is just possible it also had the last. The health fad for sea-bathing took off in the early 1700 s, and a print of Scarborough dating from 1735 is the earliest known record of the use of a bathing- ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 2000
Newspaper: Scarborough Evening News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 495 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

The best of the rest The Gore, 190 Queensgate, 02G-7 584 660 1, town-house hotel established in 1892, with opulent

... between Georgian terrace and modem office block. It houses the splendid Rooks Nest suite (Fig 1), complete with Edwardian bathing machine and bizarre bed designed in Paris for a Dominican plantation slave made good. More than a hotel, The Rookery is a landmark ...

Published: Thursday 30 October 2003
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 805 | Page: 87 | Tags: none

Tim Rose Gleaning beneath harvest moon COUNTRY MATTERS

... holiday season! The late eminent folklorist Kevin Danaher recorded that the boarding-house owners, fish vendors and bathing machine operators did the deed as a jocose hint that the date meant an end to their seasonal bonanza from families who came ...

Published: Sunday 29 September 2002
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 665 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

Sorry Margate c.cin: v – no contest

... Setterington print (1730), which hangs in the entrance lobby to Scarborough library, shows the earliest recorded sea bathing machine. There is no need to invent or even exaggerate Scarborough’s indisputable claims. As for Margate’s specious pretensions ...

Published: Tuesday 13 February 2001
Newspaper: Scarborough Evening News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 728 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

and illustrated maps. After Rowland Hill introduced the penny post in 1840, he launched seriously into ..

... 'dippers'-the fearsome old women who stood in the sea fully clothed and bonneted and received you into the water from your bathing machine. These illustrations are loosely etched and are almost always signed 'T. o.', Thomas Onwhyn, an illustrator of Dickens's ...

Published: Thursday 13 July 2000
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1192 | Page: 99 | Tags: none

FPDSavills INTERNATIONAL PROPERTY CONSULTANTS FPDSavills INTERNATIONAL PROPERTY CONSULTANTS — e n TN e S & g T ..

... glimpsed through twin Romanesque arches reminiscent of those at Lindisfarne Castle, Northumberland. Bathed in light flooding down from above, the cool Farmington Bath stone contrasts with the warm palette of rusts and midgreens used for the principal rooms and ...

Published: Thursday 13 July 2000
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 30517 | Page: 99 | Tags: none

• MACHINE OPERATOR

... • MACHINE OPERATOR Person required to operate multi-head weigher and form, fills, seal machines. Mechanical electrical and couputer awareness required. Full Training will be given. Hours of work 8.15 a.m. to 5 p.m. • PRODUCTION OPERATIVES Full and part-time ...

Published: Friday 27 April 2001
Newspaper: Drogheda Independent
County: Louth, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 420 | Page: 24 | Tags: none