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sewer lined by festering mudbanks where in the opening chapter of Our Mutual Friend a boatman pushes off into ...
baths, which are planned on an extensive scale, containing many thousand gallons of filtered water, will be ...
it is almost entirely sea-water, clear and green, as at Ramsgate or Margate. But this statement we are in ...
season,’ reported the press. However, Thames water ‘though improving, is not exactly the fluid in which bathers w ...
seven were ‘unfit for human consumption’. The designs for the bath were prepared in 1870 and the Thames Conserv ...
other rivers as well, such as the Dee and the Clyde, while there were six at different places along the Sever ...
cheaper and quicker than building a swimming pool on land. The tradition elsewhere in Europe went back ev ...
pontoon, with the bath in the hollow centre. It would be 6 feet deep in the middle and at night would ...
that the new floating bath was at the ‘point of completion’. Certain hours would be ‘set apart for ladies’ an ...
been very warm; the following year the temperature was regularly raised to around 80 degrees Fahrenheit – no ...
The Charing Cross floating baths as depicted in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News in August 1875, shortly after they op ...
‘super structure of iron and glass’ was to give bathers a safe, clean place to swim. The Penny Illustrated Paper, however, ...
not the water run through it, as is the case with each of the floating baths on the Seine?’ Instead it ‘app ...
was the filtering apparatus while at the other was a refreshment room. The Birmingham Daily Post assured its readers ...
the poolside dressing boxes and swimming around an ornamental fountain. The river water was passed through a fi ...
would become less pleasant to bathe in’. In 1876, the year porpoises were spotted in the area, the bath ...
public had ‘shown that they fully appreciated swimming in the Thames in summer, but the winter months found the fl ...
‘was skated upon, in the first instance, by two ladies’. It still continued as a bath, however, and was c ...
pontoon, but had offered it to the City Corporation ‘for use of boys at the City of London School’. So di ...
‘At the east end [of the basement floor near the Embankment] is a large iron grating, guarding a mysteriou ...
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