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... At the seaside watering places, Victorian ladies entered a “‘bathing machine”, a sort of large, wheeled box, which could be hauled down to the water’s edge. Milady changed into a bathing dress which covered her far more completely than her outdoor » ...

Published: Thursday 25 January 1973
Newspaper: Cumbernauld News
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 312 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Beach drama with that dash ot decorum

... Beach drama with that dash ot decorum European beaches and a bikini top is about as up-to-date as a Victorian bathing machine. But if you continue to prefer a cover-up job to wear beneath the beach umbrells, or your swimmin? is confined to the loca pool ...

Published: Wednesday 23 March 1988
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 262 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

JOB ON NATATION

... got into that machine amidst the titters of the spectators, and vowed that [ would never attempt ...

Published: Monday 04 October 1880
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1053 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Tm Week-Exl' Hahii,

... made an arrangement beforehsm! Hatiiim; Hoars. Aii|smntly that familiar object by seashore, the lumbering old fashioned bathing machine, is about go the way of all ancient enriositiee, end gradually disappear. One. any rate, notice* without regret that its ...

Published: Saturday 14 July 1906
Newspaper: St. Andrews Citizen
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 484 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE SILENCE OF THE HAMS

... includes baggy pants that great-granny would not have been ashamed to venture out in from the privacy of her magnificent bathing machine. As the years slip by the odds are stacked against taut torsos and in favour of generously-cut shirts kept firmly on. ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1991
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 545 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

VICTORY FROM DEFEAT

... lose. Drake was not to blame that both Miss Sybil and the plain-clothed- man should happen to look at him as ho loft the bathing machine with the precious bracelet in his pocket—the one from the sea the other from high on the grassy slopes behind the L.each ...

Published: Sunday 25 July 1920
Newspaper: Sunday Mail (Glasgow)
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1357 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Infirmary Prize-Day Memories

... or any such beverage. , , , Bathing accommodation seemed have been more adequate in Dundee than in the Twentv-five years before Bart Hospital got its first bath in 1827, Dundee Infirmary agreed to lend out the bathing machine to the inhabitants of the town ...

Published: Tuesday 23 December 1947
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 681 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Slayer Of Ex-Wren Will Be Brought To Justice

... and evening gown over the rough grave. Doreen's missing black handbag was found a mile from the spot hidden behind a bathing machine. It was empty. Then began a search for half a dozen objects established to have been in the bag. They included a brooch ...

Published: Sunday 14 July 1946
Newspaper: Sunday Post
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 584 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

STONEHAVEN POSTAL A itRANGEMENTS

... Prevention of Cmelty Animals. Man Dbowsbd.—A fatal bathing accident ocenred at Portobello, on Tuesday. It appears that a man abont whom nothing is known, of from 60 to 55 years of age, hired a bathing machine at one o’clock, and after swimming about and diving ...

Published: Thursday 28 July 1887
Newspaper: Stonehaven Journal
County: Kincardineshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1079 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Swim And Be Beautiful

... says HENEVER I look at pictures of ladies bathing—those pictures made about thirty years ago—l alwavs want to laugh. Usually they are playing ring-a-roses in the water, and they wore more clothes for bathing purposes than we do to-day tq go flying in ...

Published: Thursday 08 May 1930
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 895 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

VETERANS OF THE ROAD

... The first covered railway carriage, of which give an illustration, had the door at' the end, and strongly resembled a bathing machine. It was called the Experiment. It is said that sister carriages to the Experiment are still in use on a certain railway ...

Published: Tuesday 26 April 1904
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Post
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 722 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A Suggestion

... today, turns these compounds into Silver Thiosulphate by the hand, as it were, the Hypo leads it out of the gelatine bathing machine into water in the form of a double salt, Silver Sodium Thiosulphate. Gelatin. Now your gelatine film is a very delicate ...

Published: Friday 18 July 1924
Newspaper: Forfar Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 830 | Page: 5 | Tags: none