THE COBBLER IN THE BATHING MACHINE, A GRAND ELBECTION DODGE

... THE COBBLER IN THE BATHING MACHINE, A GRAND ELBECTION DODGE. There is a good story of a prominent Lanca‘:a.n man who, though a h!eh: teetotaler, hu“ ‘ misfortune to possess a physiognomy rubicund enough to rival a “ port wine e-p{uio- in a fairly advanced ...

Published: Monday 27 February 1899
Newspaper: Scarborough Evening News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 230 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SUICIDE OF A YOUNG LADY IN A BATHING MACHINE

... IN A BATHING MACHINE. E On Tuesday last the visitors and inhabitants ot: Wal| ton.on-the-Nase were greatly distressed by the circum| stance of a young woman, about 22 years of age, having | committed suicide on Tuesday last in one of the bathing | machines ...

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

Flashback

... JFROM our files fifty ~ years ago today:— After complaints at the scantiness of bathing costumes. “which woul%emake the fishes blush.,” xhill Council requested bathing machine proprietors to insist on “university costume” being ndggted, Water ortafe at Raunds ...

Published: Tuesday 27 July 1954
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 56 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... to LUKE HARTLEY. PROPERTY & FURNITURE SALES. BUSINESS TRANSFERS. VALUATIONS FOR PROBATE &c. PROMPT SETTLEMENTS., = The bathing machine drifted farther away, and it seemed hours before they were rescued. Then an old fisherman rowed out and took them off ...

Published: Friday 23 January 1925
Newspaper: Nelson Leader
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 79 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Caravans by J. Clement Jones

... are old enough to remember both, as “a cross between a large bathing machine and a very small second-class carriage.” But at the same time those of my readers who remember bathing machines and perhaps who have even used them, will know that they were ...

Published: Saturday 14 August 1971
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 285 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 198 75 YEARS AGO

... several people had com plained to him of the lacik of bathing failities on (/. beach, and as the town p.. sessed a streich of beah second to none for the pur pose, he thought tha proper bathing machine; ought to be provided bhoti, for utilitarian and sanitary ...

Published: Friday 18 June 1982
Newspaper: Blyth News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 135 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SATURDA

... avai Scheveningen, or at the bathing machine might Mz. W. 8. Grserr's punishments. But pe crime merited the penan: over the stones, then t with stuffy discomfort, as much as a shilling calculated to disturb equilibrium. Bathing more luxurious if its d. restored ...

Published: Saturday 09 July 1898
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 421 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

“ A Ghastly Farce”

... whole thing was a ghastly farce. Mixed Bathing at Rhyl At Rhyl Council’s annual licensing meeting yesterday Mr. Vaughan, bathing machine prorictor, asked the Council to grant more riu:ncm for vans for mixed bathing. He added that he could not get too many ...

Published: Thursday 01 May 1913
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 165 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BAPTISED IN THE SEA

... BAPTISED IN THE SEA FROM A BATHING MACHINE. Blackpcol provids many uncommon sights for #te vimtors, and ooe of the rarest (says a writer n the “Blackpool Hersid”) was wilnessed about taes o'clock on Sunday aftermoon, when the | '-Txyd;lhqt-mbymimhthm“ ...

Published: Wednesday 16 August 1899
Newspaper: Scarborough Evening News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 181 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ELECTRIC THEATRE

... Messenger,” “ Denizens of the Sea,” “ Portuguese Centaurs,” * A Convenient Burglar,” * Jane on Strike.” and “ Didums and the Bathing Machine.” Foul Play will bo shown every afternoon and evening this weck. Ty, THE GYMNASIUM, Esr 180 \'u.u& KOAD, EAsTROURNE ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1912
Newspaper: Eastbourne Gazette
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 186 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

BATHING SCENE AT BOURNEMOUTE

... rescue, and another gentleman also hastened out. All three became endangered. Eventually Ms. Tyne, a bathing machine proprietor, who has saved nearly ome hundred lives, went in, and with others renderad timely assistance. One of the men was in a periloas ...

Published: Wednesday 20 August 1913
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 203 | Page: 4 | Tags: none