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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

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

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

A POET-LAUREAT NOTES ON SCOTLEAIND

... Southey, the Poet Laureate, in his “ scarce{y hotter at Lisbon,” so he Rt “Journal” on August 17, 1819. On got into a bathing machine and i this day, too, Thomas Telford, the cooled off in the Firth of Forth. famous civil engineer, joined On August 20 ...

Published: Saturday 28 July 1962
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1078 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

INTER ALIA

... Beaching Southsea, he niisjudged the speed of the vessel when he wished to stop, and the consequence was that! Ito with a bathing machine, in which were two iadies. happily no one WAS hurt, but• the Colonel has had some chaff over the amusing incident. An ...

Published: Saturday 24 June 1893
Newspaper: Scottish Leader
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1606 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

AN EXTRAORDINARY FRAUD. Two labourers, named Edwin Puxley sad Benjamin Nash, were charged at the Bow Street ..

... •kets Lefevre's hatiiing establishment shortly after midday on Wednesday. The three ladies betook themselves to a larre bathing machine, which was a favourite of theirs, while the two gentl 'mar. retired to another. The wind was high and had blown nearly ...

Published: Saturday 04 October 1879
Newspaper: North Briton
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1658 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Of By a line commencing at • point on the east side Bridge Street 23i yards or thereabouts northeastwards free

... exposure of persons bathing, and for regulating the time and man ner nwhich bathing machines may be used, and the charges to be made, and fur requiriog the proper repair and maintenance of bathing machine., and prohibiting the use of ...

Published: Friday 20 November 1896
Newspaper: Mid-Lothian Journal
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3857 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SIRIRT-SIMLVILS PARA/M.—Soldiers crc 2u.t. now being paraded •t Aldembot in thcir chirtmileeret. On Konday ..

... thirty years, in which period be has saved no fewer than seventy-seven lives. Adams, who is a swi ling instructor and bathing machine proprietor, has locally earned the sobriquet of of Gorlesion Pier, one of his most remarkable rosettes having been that ...

Published: Friday 24 August 1906
Newspaper: Mid-Lothian Journal
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2868 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SIR CHARLES NAPIER ON CHERBOURG

... aryear. A Bow. BATH= ur Danes.—An oxidant 'Unpins& the bathing machine of the Greed Duchene Helen of at Ostend, on the 11* inst. The Primas having ta= bath, the horse tried to put the machine In whittle, of the wheals broke, and the ...

Published: Wednesday 01 September 1858
Newspaper: North British Agriculturist
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3129 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

NORTH BRITISH AGRIGI7LTITRIST

... XRT or BATHING Ilsoutrume.—At the Portobello Police Court, on Monday morning—Provost Wood on the bench —the remanded case of Mr Charles Cowan, VaHayfield, charged with having, on the 26th July, bathed at Portobello beach without using bathing drawers ...

Published: Wednesday 17 August 1870
Newspaper: North British Agriculturist
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4606 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

WAY Reed,. la :Foot Fres, Is 2.1.: Clotb.2a i rod Fres. 1 CRIMES. ACCIDENTS. 24 THE LITTLE FOLKS ILLUMINATING BOOK

... Wednes•htc, John Berthold:, 21 sewn of ago, residing in , Grauthi Pare, Edinburgh, was drowned while bathing at Portobello. Deceased hired a bathing machine at half-past one o'clock, and swam out from It a considerable distance. He was abaerved silently ...

Published: Saturday 25 June 1881
Newspaper: Weekly Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4472 | Page: 1 | Tags: none