BOTMS want a bath!

... BOTMS want a bath! DOES anyone know the whereabouts of an old Victorian bathing-machine? If so, Bexhill Old Tyme Music-Hall Society would like to hear from you. BOTMS members are hoping to stage some publicity stunts before their 10th anniversary show ...

Published: Thursday 17 March 1988
Newspaper: Bexhill-on-Sea Observer
County: Sussex, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 319 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

E SEA BATH

... height of the season each bathing machine is, of course, usually engaged two and three deep during the momnings, and it is only copsiderate to those who are waiting to hurry on the work of the toilet. On emerging irom the machine the “glow” of the dip shonld ...

Published: Saturday 13 August 1910
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 554 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Green-fingered Bert and frien

... Debacle; 30 Nuts; 31 Also; 32 Charade; 36 Windows; 38 Sleep; 39 Peter; 40 Sty; 43 Pat; 47 Rage; 48 Sweet Seventeen:; 49 Bathing machine; 50 Alan: 51 Caribou; 52 Brother Jack; 54 Nasty temper; 55 Tempest; 57 Age of consent; 59 Pen and Pencil; 63 Sensations; ...

Published: Friday 02 December 1988
Newspaper: Mid Sussex Times
County: Sussex, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 537 | Page: 72 | 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

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... including a parachute drop on the beach at 2 p.m., a fihy of majorettes and Punch and Judy. A bathing machine will be on the beach and some of the Victorian bathing belles will be showing -zt' A brass band wiil play the of the era on the grass areas of the ...

Published: Thursday 25 June 1981
Newspaper: Dalkeith Advertiser
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 880 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

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... between Bath Street and Bellfield Street and so that every effort will be made to recapture the mood of a century ago, traditional Victorian entertainment is being laid on. One of the biggest attractions should be the Victorian bathing machine — not seen ...

Published: Thursday 03 May 1979
Newspaper: Dalkeith Advertiser
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1099 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ICE o i

... before long you will find they have a miraculous way of not seeming quite so high after all. ) N RN have left them in the bathing machine,” said Jo. Just then they came to a little ice-cream shop on the beach, and behind it was Master Buster, eating ice-cream ...

Published: Friday 30 January 1925
Newspaper: Nelson Leader
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1188 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

e ol THE PEDLAR'S CARAVAN. SFIEETL2 2O EETL2TTELTTEEEN T wish I lived in a caravan, : With a horse to

... or&er, Plates with the alphabet round the border. The roads are brown and the sea is green, But his house is just like a bathing machine ; The world is round, and he can ride, Rumble and splash to the other side. | PIANOFORTE Miss Smith holds both Teacher’'s ...

Published: Friday 21 December 1928
Newspaper: Nelson Leader
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1120 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Big beach clean-up about to begin

... Change programme to hel] 900 mm diameter and 1s am;&mmfi being constructed using a the north west and enable tunnel boring machine. bathing waters to achieve Work started on the tunnel evening, B O R e T oy AT, ' P - 2 2 PR e e ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1995
Newspaper: Morecambe Visitor
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 321 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BATHING AND DROWNING FATALITIES

... BATHING AND DROWNING FATALITIES. Alfred Balls, 23, of London, was drowned while bathing from the beach between Ventnor and Shanklin, on Tuesday. A boy named fHlammond, of Upton Park, Lon don, lost his life while bathing at East Ham, on Monday evening ...

Published: Saturday 26 August 1899
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3448 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Sur i €haiv, - LIX S, Whilst mournfuily musing on days tat were past And romemringe joys that were too

... before, z\mi these who read, be found to read £till more. A Feanrvr Possiwiniry,— Bathing Machine Proprictor—Did you get that 'ere gent’s sixpence afore he wont into the machine? Assistant Doy (a novice) - No, sir, theught 8% the coves paid when they comed ...

Published: Saturday 04 September 1847
Newspaper: Bedfordshire Times and Independent
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 7910 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Fate of the last bathing-machine

... puttinggreen for many years, was in fact very probably Scarborough’s last-surviving bathing-machine. Scarborough has some claim to having invented the bathing-machine long ago. The last of them were, Mr Seymour told me, finally bought up by the borough ...

Published: Saturday 02 October 1999
Newspaper: Scarborough Evening News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 930 | Page: 6 | Tags: none