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An old-style bathing machine, complete with six people in period bathing costume, appeared on the beach at ..

... An old-style bathing machine, complete with six people in period bathing costume, appeared on the beach at Portobello yesterday, ! in advance of the machine’s public launching tomerrow at 2.30 ! : __.p.m. on the Promenade at Portobeflo. v ll S S R AR ...

Published: Friday 04 May 1979
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 817 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SEA-BATHING FACILITIES

... slow degrees into the clammy bathing costume, and issues forth into the breeze. Diving from a Machine. There are few things more exhilarating than a dive into the cool sea, but who could dive from the steps of a bathing machine? Instead of diving, the bather ...

Published: Monday 11 July 1904
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Post
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 719 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

POST MACAZINE PACE

... We illustrate new bathing ret bathing machine, and which has been tains from twelve to twenty-four compartments, and can be anchored within convenient distance these new structures will be afloat next season. AN INEXPENSIVE BATHING PAVILION. WILL BE ...

Published: Monday 15 August 1904
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Post
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 97 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

RIDDLES

... dictionary. • t What is it that a man j e right hand but never into his left?-His lett ' What is the difference between a bathing machine and mirror ?-In e the sea and in the other you see the face. Whv are New Year resolutions like faint ing ladies ?—Because ...

Published: Saturday 06 October 1945
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 106 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

ves Prague shoulder

... explains starts his new BBC TV series the reasons why. “Bellamy’s Europe” by plunging from The programme, “Vive La Differa bathing machine into the Channel ence,” will be broadcast next Thursand striking out for the French coast, day. It is the first of 10 ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1976
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 158 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

One Hundred Years Ago

... formerly attached to this practice, as being conducive to the public health, that in 1782 find that the Magistrates procured bathing machine pro bon publico. This now rendered un necessary, by the arrangements of Walker, which offer every convenience at a moderate ...

Published: Monday 18 May 1936
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 156 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SPECIAL TRAINS RAN FOR THE OLD-TIME BATHERS

... Portoglass works. A hot bath cost one bello, and West Lothian. shilling. a cold bath ninepence. In 1849, commissioners were and a shower bath sixpence. appointed to fix the stands for sea Sea bathing quarters were bathing - ...

Published: Saturday 01 December 1956
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 576 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BATHING IS SO VERY MODERN

... comfortable, luxurious, bathing stations, finely h. cut, and safe bathing pools. (Prestwick 's new 450,0u0 bathing lake is the best of its kind in Scotland. ltlackpool's famous open-air bath the biggest in the world. 1%1 bathing is one of ...

Published: Friday 28 October 1932
Newspaper: Port-Glasgow Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 620 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

The Bed That Runs Round London

... 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 ...

Published: Friday 27 March 1936
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 675 | Page: 3 | Tags: none